Before surrealist legend Luis Buñuel found himself directing multiple films a year during the 1950s on the way to creating French classics like Belle de Jour and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in the 60s and 70s respectively, he became a persona non grata when it came to European benefactors thanks to his feature debut L’Age d’Or labeling him a heretic and almost getting his producer excommunicated by the Pope. With Salvador Dali at his side, the Un Chien Andalou filmmaker was dismissed as a provocateur nobody was willing to risk ruining their reputation over if he continued driving his own into the ground. Buñuel’s only chance of getting something new off the ground was his avant-garde artist friend Ramón Acín serendipitously winning the lottery.
It doesn’t get more surreal than a drunken night on the town lamenting his poor luck with someone who’d...
It doesn’t get more surreal than a drunken night on the town lamenting his poor luck with someone who’d...
- 8/12/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"Death is hiding at every corner, but it won't come out if we don't force it." GKids has unveiled a second official Us trailer for a peculiar animated drama from Spain called Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (or Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas), made by filmmaker Salvador Simó (of Paddle Pop Adventures 2: Journey Into the Kingdom). Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles tells the true story of how Buñuel made his second movie. Set in Paris in the 1930s, Buñuel's sculptor Ramón Acin friend buys a lottery ticket with the promise that, if he wins, he will pay for his next film. Remarkably, he ends up a winner, and the two set off to make the short doc Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (aka Land Without Bread). Featuring the voices of Jorge Usón, Fernando Ramos, Luis Enrique de Tomás, and Cyril Corral. This definitely...
- 7/1/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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