by Dominique Russell
Dominique Russell teaches in the Spanish, Film and Comparative Literature programs at the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada).
Luis Buñuel was a singular figure in world cinema, and a consecrated auteur from the start. Born almost with cinema itself, his work moves from surrealist experimentation in the 1920s, through commercial comedies and melodrama in the 1950s, to postmodernist cine d’art in the 1960s and ’70s. Claimed for France, where he made his celebrated early and late films, for Spain, where he was born and had his deepest cultural roots, and for Mexico, where he became a citizen and made 20 films, he has more recently been seen as a figure in permanent exile who problematises the very idea of the national in his films.
Luis Buñuel article (long)
YouTube 10 part short film, "Regarding Luis Bunuel"
