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Viridiana (pronounced [biɾiˈðjana]) is a 1961 Spanish-Mexican surrealist [1] comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and produced by Gustavo Alatriste. [2] It is loosely based on the 1895 novel Halma by Benito Pérez Galdós .
That Obscure Object of Desire (French: Cet obscur objet du désir; Spanish: Ese oscuro objeto del deseo) is a 1977 comedy drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, based on the 1898 novel The Woman and the Puppet by Pierre Louÿs.
The Exterminating Angel (Spanish: El ángel exterminador) is a 1962 Mexican surrealist black comedy film written and directed by Luis Buñuel.Starring Silvia Pinal and produced by Pinal's then-husband Gustavo Alatriste, the film tells the story of a group of wealthy guests who find themselves unable to leave after a lavish dinner party, and the chaos that ensues.
This tribute consisted of three events: (1) the inauguration, for Cannes 2000, of the Palace's new Luis Buñuel room, (2) an original exhibition organized by Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales entitled "The Secret World of Buñuel", and (3) an exceptional projection of Viridiana, the Palme d'Or winner in 1961, in the ...
Anora "Ani" Mikheeva is a 23-year-old stripper living in Brighton Beach, a Russian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City.Her boss introduces her to Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov, the young son of the Russian oligarch Nikolai Zakharov, who requests someone fluent in Russian.
The film is about a group of destitute children and their misfortunes in a Mexico City slum. El Jaibo escapes juvenile jail and reunites with the street gang that he leads. . They attempt to rob a blind street musician and, failing at first, later track him down, beat him, and destroy his instrumen
The film's plot has many similarities to Buñuel's earlier film Viridiana and the character of Don Lope is partially based on Buñuel's father, who was also a "señorito (an adult who never worked a day in his life but lives comfortably, or even luxuriously, thanks to an inheritance). Buñuel based much of Tristana's schoolgirl innocence on ...
Una mujer sin amor (English: A Woman Without Love) is a 1952 Mexican [1] film directed by Spanish-born filmmaker Luis Buñuel.It is based on Guy de Maupassant's novel Pierre and Jean.