Luis Buñuel was a visionary surrealist filmmaker whose works provoked and challenged societal norms. His early experiments in Paris, influenced by Salvador Dalí and Fritz Lang, laid the groundwork for his unique cinematic vision. Buñuel gained renown for his scandalous yet artistically significant films, often exploring the darker aspects of the human psyche and critiquing bourgeois hypocrisy. His later work in Mexico and France solidified his status as one of the most influential and provocative filmmakers of the 20th century.
A master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values. Like Pasolini, his work offers a remarkably sophisticated political analysis, but remains based in the essentially peasant values of storytelling, and the purposefully unsystematic supervisions of laughter.