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\u003cb\u003eLuis Buñuel was one of the great film-makers of the twentieth century. Gwynne Edwards analyses his work in the context of Buñuel's personal obsessions - sex, bourgeois values and religion.\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuis Buñuel [1900-1983] was one of the truly great film-makers of the twentieth century. Shaped by a repressive Jesuit education and a bourgeois family background, he reacted against both, escaped to Paris, and was soon embraced by André Breton's official surrealist group. His early films are his most aggressive and shocking, the slicing of the eyeball in \u003ci\u003eUn Chien andalou \u003c/i\u003e [1929] one of the most memorable episodes in the history of cinema. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Ones\u003c/i\u003e [1950] and \u003ci\u003eHe\u003c/i\u003e [1952], made in Mexico, were followed, from 1960, in Spain and France, by the films for which he is best known: \u003ci\u003eViridiana\u003c/i\u003e [1961], \u003ci\u003eBelle de jour\u003c/i\u003e [1966], \u003ci\u003eTristana\u003c/i\u003e [1970], \u003ci\u003eThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie\u003c/i\u003e [1972], and \u003ci\u003eThat Obscure Object of Desire\u003c/i\u003e [1977]. \u003cbr\u003e Gwynne Edwards analyses the films in the context of Buñuel's personal obsessions - sex, bourgeois values, and religion - suggesting that the film-maker experienced a degree of sexual inhibition surprising in a surrealist. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e GWYNNE EDWARDS is Professor of Spanish at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. |
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