Luis Buñuel

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21 februari 1900 — 29 juli 1983 (83 år)
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.

Filmer och Serier på Plex

  • Mordängeln
    Mordängeln1962
  • Guldåldern
    Guldåldern1930
  • En kammarjungfrus dagbok
    En kammarjungfrus dagbok1964
  • Vintergatan
    Vintergatan1969
  • The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz1955
  • Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe1954
  • Djungelmorden
    Djungelmorden1956
  • The Great Madcap
    The Great Madcap1949

Känd för

  • Belle De Jour - Dagfjärilen
    Belle De Jour - Dagfjärilen1967
  • Borgarklassens diskreta charm
    Borgarklassens diskreta charm1972
  • Mordängeln
    Mordängeln1962
  • Den andalusiska hunden
    Den andalusiska hunden1929
  • Viridiana
    Viridiana1961
  • Gatans desperados
    Gatans desperados1950
  • Begärets dunkla mål
    Begärets dunkla mål1977
  • Simon pelarhelgonet
    Simon pelarhelgonet1965
  • Frihetens fantom
    Frihetens fantom1974
  • Guldåldern
    Guldåldern1930
  • Vintergatan
    Vintergatan1969
  • Nazarin
    Nazarin1959
  • En kammarjungfrus dagbok
    En kammarjungfrus dagbok1964
  • Johnny Got His Gun
    Johnny Got His Gun1971
  • Den nakna sanningen
    Den nakna sanningen1953
  • Land utan bröd
    Land utan bröd1933
  • The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz1955
  • Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe1954
  • Inkräktare
    Inkräktare1960
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
    The Fall of the House of Usher1928

Filmography

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