El cine de Luis Buñuel

An atheist by the grace of God, as he liked to say, and a cinema legend by the grace of a talent that has made him the only essential Spaniard in the history of the seventh art, Luis Buñuel was a born provocateur, an unclassifiable artist, always disturbing, ancestral and relentless dynamiter of all kinds of conventions. Every viewer who has been caught up in the magic, hypnosis, restlessness, humor, sarcasm and poetry of this unusual and incendiary director has his favorite Buñuel. There will be those who will be fascinated by the young filmmaker adopted by Paris and filled with the brutality and surreal passion of "Un perro andaluz" and "La edad de oro". Others will be seduced by those films from his Mexican stage filmed with four pesos and tons of ingenuity: "Los olvidados", "Nazarín", "Él", "La joven", "Abismos de pasión"... Or by the works of the Oscar-winning and glorified Buñuel who shoots in France with great means, time and the most prestigious actors the sophisticated "The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie", "The ghost of freedom" and "That obscure object of desire". And everyone will be seduced by "Viridiana", "Belle de jour" and "Tristana", three masterpieces that continue to bear the stamp of genius and an irreducible spirit. The texts by André Bazin, Vincent Canby, Raymond Durgnat, Roger Ebert, Peter Hogue, Pauline Kael, Anthony Lane, Alberto Moravia, Jonathan Rosenbaum, David Thomson and François Truffaut, among other authors, constitute a lucid look at a closer anthropological cinema to the essay, poetry and painting than to the novel.