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Luis Buñuel

Born

in Calanda, Spain

February 22, 1900

Died

July 29, 1983

Genre

Cinema

Influences

Sade, André Breton, Fritz Lang, Francisco de Goya, Freud, Lorca, Ramón ...more

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Surrealist film director. Buñuel was born in Calanda, in Aragón province. When 17, he moved to Madrid to study history at the university. He joined to the student's residency, where he later met Salvador Dalí and Federico Garcia Lorca. After finishing his studies, he moved to Paris, where he learned how to direct films from French silent cinema masters.

Influenced by Fritz Lang, he decided to direct his own films. By this time he was also influenced by Surrealism and the Marquis de Sade.

Dalí wrote a script for a very shocking film, 'Un chien andalou', that was quite an event in french intellectual world. This success catched the attention from vicount Charles Noialles, very intersted in arts, who paid his next film: l'Age d'or. This film w ...more

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	My Last Sigh by Luis Buñuel, Abigail Israel (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 3,143 ratings — published 1982 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	بونوئلی‌ها: نوشته‌های سوررئالیستی لوئیس بونوئل by Luis Buñuel, شیوا مقانلو (Translator) 3.13 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Objects of Desire: Conversations With Luis Buñuel by Luis Buñuel, José de la Colina (Interviewer), Tomás Pérez Turrent (Interviewer) 4.40 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	سگ آندلسی by Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, محمد ارژنگ (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings by Luis Buñuel, Garrett White (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viridiana 4.21 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1963 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	جذابیت پنهان بورژوازی by Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, بهرام ری‌پور (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exterminating Angel (Green Integer: 39) by Luis Buñuel, Chase Madar (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Belle de Jour 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1971 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Screenplays: Viridiana / The Exterminating Angel / Simon of the Desert 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.”
― Luis Bunuel

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“Thank God I'm an atheist!”
― Luis Bunuel

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“Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.”
― Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh

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