Luis Buñuel

Regista, Sceneggiatore, Attore, Montatore, Produttore, Compositore

21 febbraio 1900 — 29 luglio 1983 (83 anni)
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.

Film e Serie su Plex

  • Il fascino discreto della borghesia
    Il fascino discreto della borghesia1972
  • L'angelo sterminatore
    L'angelo sterminatore1962
  • L'Age d'Or
    L'Age d'Or1930
  • Il diario di una cameriera
    Il diario di una cameriera1964
  • La via lattea
    La via lattea1969
  • Estasi di un delitto
    Estasi di un delitto1955
  • Le avventure di Robinson Crusoe
    Le avventure di Robinson Crusoe1954
  • La selva dei dannati
    La selva dei dannati1956
  • Il grande teschio
    Il grande teschio1949

Famoso per

  • Bella di giorno
    Bella di giorno1967
  • Il fascino discreto della borghesia
    Il fascino discreto della borghesia1972
  • L'angelo sterminatore
    L'angelo sterminatore1962
  • Un chien andalou
    Un chien andalou1929
  • Viridiana
    Viridiana1961
  • I figli della violenza
    I figli della violenza1950
  • Quell'oscuro oggetto del desiderio
    Quell'oscuro oggetto del desiderio1977
  • Simon del deserto
    Simon del deserto1965
  • Il fantasma della libertà
    Il fantasma della libertà1974
  • L'Age d'Or
    L'Age d'Or1930
  • La via lattea
    La via lattea1969
  • Nazarín
    Nazarín1959
  • Il diario di una cameriera
    Il diario di una cameriera1964
  • E Johnny prese il fucile
    E Johnny prese il fucile1971
  • Lui
    Lui1953
  • Terra senza pane
    Terra senza pane1933
  • Estasi di un delitto
    Estasi di un delitto1955
  • Le avventure di Robinson Crusoe
    Le avventure di Robinson Crusoe1954
  • Violenza per una giovane
    Violenza per una giovane1960
  • La caduta della casa Usher
    La caduta della casa Usher1928

Filmografia