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Luis BuuelLuis Buuel (February 22, 1900 – July 29, 1983) was a Spanish surrealist filmmaker and poet. Life Buuel was born in Calanda, Teruel, Aragn, Spain. He had a strict Jesuit education and went to university in Madrid. He was a very close friend of Salvador Dal and Federico Garca Lorca, among other important Spanish artists that were living in the Residencia de Estudiantes. After that, he moved to Paris to do film-related work. He married Jeanne Rucar in 1925. Buuel became a Mexican citizen in 1948. His sons are film-maker Rafael Buuel and Juan Luis Buuel. He died in Mexico City of cirrhosis of the liver. Works After working on several films as a director's assistant (Jean Epstein on Mauprat and Mario Nalpas on La Sirne des Tropiques) he co-wrote and then filmed a 24 minute short film Un Chien Andalou (1929) with Salvador Dal. This film, featuring a series of startling and sometimes horrifying images (such as the slow slicing of a woman's eyeball with a razor blade) was enthusiastically received by French surrealists of the time and continues to be shown regularly in film societies to this day. He continued using this surreal imagery that found fertile ground in Mexico. Famous are his scenes where chickens populate nightmares, women grow beards and aspiring saints are desired by luscious women. Most of his later films were openly critical of middle class morals and organised religion, mocking their pretensions with often vicious and overt attacks on the Church and priests. Filmography (director) External links Buuel, Luis Buuel, Luis Buuel, Luis Buuel, Luis
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