Luis Buñuel

Directeur, Scénariste, Acteur, Éditeur, Producteur, Compositeur

21 février 1900 — 29 juillet 1983 (83 ans)
Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Buñuel's work was known for its avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary and social satire.

Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel made films from the 1920s through the 1970s. He collaborated with prolific surrealist painter Salvador Dali creating the films Un Chien Andalou (1929), which was made in the silent era and L'Age d'Or (1930). The two films are seen as the birth of Cinematic surrealism. From 1947 to 1960 he developed his skills as a director filming in Mexico making grounded and human melodramas such as Gran Casino (1947), Los Olvidados (1950), and Él (1953). Here is where he gained the fundamentals of storytelling.

Buñuel than transitioned into making artful, unconventional, surrealist, and political satirical films. He earned acclaim with the morally complex arthouse drama film Viridiana (1961) which criticized the Francoist dictatorship. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He then criticized political and social conditions in The Exterminating Angel (1962), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (1972) the later of which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He also directed Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), and Belle de Jour (1967), as well as his final film That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) the later of which earned the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director.

Buñuel earned five Cannes Film Festival prizes, two Berlin International Film Festival prizes, and a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. Buñuel received numerous honors including National Prize for Arts and Sciences for Fine Arts in 1977, the Moscow International Film Festival Contribution to Cinema Prize in 1979, and the Career Golden Lion in 1982. He was nominated once for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Seven of Buñuel's films are included in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time.

Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
    Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie1972
  • L'Ange exterminateur
    L'Ange exterminateur1962
  • L'Âge d'or
    L'Âge d'or1930
  • Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
    Le Journal d'une femme de chambre1964
  • La Voie lactée
    La Voie lactée1969
  • La Vie criminelle d'Archibald de La Cruz
    La Vie criminelle d'Archibald de La Cruz1955
  • Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé
    Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé1954
  • La Mort en ce jardin
    La Mort en ce jardin1956
  • Le Grand Noceur
    Le Grand Noceur1949

Connue pour

  • Belle de jour
    Belle de jour1967
  • Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
    Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie1972
  • L'Ange exterminateur
    L'Ange exterminateur1962
  • Un chien andalou
    Un chien andalou1929
  • Viridiana
    Viridiana1961
  • Los olvidados : pitié pour eux
    Los olvidados : pitié pour eux1950
  • Cet obscur objet du désir
    Cet obscur objet du désir1977
  • Simon du désert
    Simon du désert1965
  • Le Fantôme de la liberté
    Le Fantôme de la liberté1974
  • L'Âge d'or
    L'Âge d'or1930
  • La Voie lactée
    La Voie lactée1969
  • Nazarin
    Nazarin1959
  • Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
    Le Journal d'une femme de chambre1964
  • Johnny s'en va-t-en guerre
    Johnny s'en va-t-en guerre1971
  • El (Tourments)
    El (Tourments)1953
  • Terre sans pain
    Terre sans pain1933
  • La Vie criminelle d'Archibald de La Cruz
    La Vie criminelle d'Archibald de La Cruz1955
  • Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé
    Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé1954
  • La Jeune Fille
    La Jeune Fille1960
  • La Chute de la maison Usher
    La Chute de la maison Usher1928

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