His father was the large landowner Leonardo Buñuel, and his mother was Maria Portoles, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper.

Luis Buñuel was born in the village of Calanda in Aragon, Spain, the eldest of seven children, but grew up mainly in Zaragoza. Only I continue to be a Catholic and an atheist. “The world is becoming more and more absurd. His first picture, Un Chien Andalou - made in the silent era - is still viewed regularly throughout the world and retains its power to shock the viewer, and his last film, The Obscure Object of Desire- made 48 years later - won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.

Having worked in Europe and North America, and in French and Spanish, Buñuel also directed films spanning various genres. Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel created films from the 1920s through the 1970s. Filled with film trivia, framed by Buñuel’s intellect and wit, this is essential reading for fans of cinema and for anyone who has ever wanted to see the world through a surrealist’s eyes.On February 22, 1900, Spanish, later naturalized Mexican, filmmaker Luis Buñuelwas born. His personal narratives also encompass the pressing political issues of his time, many of which still haunt us today-the specter of fascism, the culture wars, the nuclear bomb. In swift and generous prose, Buñuel traces the surprising contours of his life, from the Good Friday drumbeats of his childhood to the dreams that inspired his most famous films to his turbulent friendships with Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism and subversion of his cinema, Buñuel turns his artistic gaze inward. Luis Buñuel’s films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Buñuel is the proper human landmark for a moment when Europe met America and the schemes of religion, property, and progress were reassessed as dreams.' -The New RepublicĪ provocative memoir from Luis Buñuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. 'One of the best books ever offered by a moviemaker. 'May be quite simply the loveliest testament ever left by a film director.' -The New York Times Book Review Very highly recommended if you like his movies or if you're interested in Surrealism My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Buñuel / ISBN 9780345803702 / 288-page paperback from Vintage

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