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Buñuel

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Bu·ñu·el  (b-ny-l), Luis 1900-1983.
Spanish director known for his studies of modern social manners in films such as Belle de Jour (1966) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).

Buñuel (Spanish) [buˈɲwel]
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(Biographies / Buñuel, Luis (1900-1983) M, Spanish, FILMS AND TV: director) Luis (lwis). 1900-83, Spanish film director. He collaborated with Salvador Dali on the first surrealist films, Un Chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1930). His later films include Viridiana (1961), Belle de jour (1966), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)


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Pauline Kael’s note on the film in her 5001 Nights at the Movies lists Luis Buñuel and Elaine May as among the many names that attempted to bring Waugh’s novel, considered too wild to be filmed, to the screen.
Pauline Kael’s note on the film in her 5001 Nights at the Movies lists Luis Buñuel and Elaine May as among the many names that attempted to bring Waugh’s novel, considered too wild to be filmed, to the screen.
Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967), from a screenplay by Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, based on the novel by Joseph Kessel (in French with English subtitles), is being shown at the Paris Theatre close to 40 years after it first played in New York.
 
 
 
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