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by consejeria del
Gobierno de Aragon, Con la ayuda del Ministerio de Cultura ICAA
"Bunuel wanted to
rebel against the dogmatic structures of the Church that said, 'There is
no salvation or grace outside the Church.' He wanted a kind of
Protestant surrealism in which grace was directly attainable like in 'Nazarin' or
'Viridiana.'" -- Carlos Fuentes
"All of the
Christian lives of the saints is completely surreal. All miracles are
surreal. You lose a leg, and it grows back ..." --
Carlos Saura
"The greatest
surrealism isn't French. Surrealism was born in France, but was only
theory. Born in rationalism, it's a Cartesian surrealism, and that's a
paradox, right? But the great surrealist artists, like Max Ernst in
Germany and Bunuel in Spain, go to their cultural roots and from there
extract the surrealist worldview. Bunuel is a modern surrealist, but he
has behind him Goya, Valle Inclan, Cervantes, the picaresque, St. John
of the Cross, and all that extraordinary Spanish culture that feeds
him." --
Carlos Fuentes
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"His Sadeian taste for
the apocalypytic was tickled by the vision of an omnipotent
power visiting death on mankind
like a farmer spraying insecticide on locusts." --
"The Religious
Affiliation of Director Luis Bunuel," by adherents.com
"Another thing before I die, the will. I'll die, and ten
days later the lawyer will call my sons and Jeanne for the
will. My immense fortune is in the will. The lawyer will
call them, those named are Dona Juana Bunuel, Jose Luis,
Rafael ... We can't start because Mr. Nelson Rockefeller
said he'd be here at 12:00. And so Nelson comes and
the will is read: 'I leave my fortune [to Nelson] and leave
my family penniless." So I die and my corpse is spat on by
my friends, my wife, my kids ... An ugly way to scorn
humanity, dying spat on by all my friends."
Luis Bunuel
"I'd like to be able to rise from the dead every ten years,
walk to a newsstand, and buy a few newspapers. I wouldn't ask for
anything more. With my papers under my arm, pale, brushing against
the walls, I'd return to the cemetery and read about the world's
disasters before going back to sleep satisfied, in the calming refuge of
the grave." -- Luis Bunuel |
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"What can be revealed
from Jeanne's memoirs, entitled Memories of a Woman without
a Piano, is that Buñuel was a secret tyrant whose public
face of antibourgeois anarchism concealed a domestic life of
bourgeois regulation and sadistic authoritarianism." --
lib.berkeley.edu
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"His wife's memoirs
Mujer sin piano (Woman without a Piano), written to fill out
Buñuel's own, in which she and her children are mentioned
hardly at all, reads like the remembrances of a
Stockholm-syndrome afflicted captive. Jeanne Rucar, who met
Buñuel in 1926 and married him in 1934, tries to tell a love
story. but the pain and losses he inflicted on her,
including that of her beloved piano, to a bet made by Luis
without her consent, constantly shine through." -- "Luis
Bunuel," by Dominique Russell
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"As far as I know, the
story between Jeanne and Bunuel was a fantastic love story
from the very beginning. A long one. Maybe Jeanne says now
[Woman Without a Piano], half seriously, half jokingly, that
he was brutal, but she would never have said the same when
he was alive." -- Jean-Claude Carriere
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"Love is a secret
ceremony to be celebrated
underground." --
Luis Bunuel |
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"He
is a deeply Christian man who hates God as only a Christian
can and, of course, he's very Spanish. I see him as the most
supremely religious director in the history of the movies."
-- Orson Welles |
A Proposito de
Bunuel -- Screenplay
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