The Brute: Buñuel’s Dark and Brutal Melodrama
Brutal passion and political commentary meet in Luis Buñuel’s take on the Frankenstein tradition. Made during his commercial period in Mexico, The Brute (1953), which pits a bourgeois landowner against his working-class tenants, may qualify as Luis Buñuel’s most political work. At the time
Sensationalism, Surrealism, Susana
A relic of Buñuel’s commercial period in Mexico, Susana offers up sex, sensationalism, and literal Sturm und Drang. The vast majority of Luis Buñuel’s filmography was released before his ascension to the throne of surrealist cinema. The filmmaker may have first come
A Woman Without Love: The Early Promise of an Iconic Auteur
More than a decade prior to the release of Belle de Jour, Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel directed this Mexican melodrama about the effects of infidelity on a family. https://youtu.be/KvhiILFqGJMAt first it may not seem as if there is much that distinguishes