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Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) – Spain/Mexico
The Father of Surrealist Cinema – Films that wake you up, shake you, and leave you wondering.
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5/26/20251 min temps de lecture
Luis Buñuel is one of cinema’s boldest visionaries — a master of dream logic, provocation, and sharp social critique. Born in Spain and later exiled to Mexico, Buñuel worked across countries and decades, but his filmmaking remained consistent in one thing: a deep desire to challenge the viewer.
From his first shocking short film Un Chien Andalou (1929), co-created with Salvador Dalí, to his final masterpiece That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), Buñuel used cinema as a tool of disruption, humor, and rebellion.
Why revisit Buñuel in 2025? His films speak directly to our era, with all its contradictions, hypocrisies, and absurdities. Religion, class, politics, sex — Buñuel tackled it all, always with intelligence and irreverence. His films never tell you what to think, but they push you to think.
His surrealist style — people stuck at dinner forever, a bishop cleaning shoes, a cow in a bourgeois salon — wasn’t just weird for weird’s sake. It was his way of exposing the hidden traps of society and human behavior.
Buñuel’s cinema is deeply modern: strange, funny, dangerous, and unforgettable. Watching his films is like stepping into a lucid dream you won’t forget.
In a world flooded with formulaic stories, Buñuel reminds us that cinema can still be revolutionary.
5 Essential Films by Luis Buñuel:
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Los Olvidados (1950)
Viridiana (1961)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
