Nazarin di luis bunuel biography
Nazarin di luis bunuel biography
Luis bunuel films.
Luis Bunuel() is a unique figure in the history of cinema. Almost universally admired and widely celebrated in his later years, he was nevertheless often a controversial iconoclast, and his career had many ups and downs along the way [1]. Critics sometimes simplify his rather complicated artistic career by dividing it into three eras [2]:
- early avant-garde surrealist films () made in France and Spain;
- more conventional work in the late s and the s mostly in the Mexican film industry;
- international co-productions of surrealistic satires in the s and s.
Many critics focus on the first and third eras, while viewing the second era, those early days in Mexico, as a less-significant period when Bunuel was struggling with limited budgets and demands to meet conventional box-office tastes. But it was in this period when he made what to me is his greatest film, Los Olvidados(literally: The Forgotten Ones, but released in the US under the title The Young an