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Luis Buñuel

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Luis Buñuel was a film director associated with Spanish, Mexican, and French cinema in the twentieth century. His work engaged with surrealism, social convention, and narrative disruption across multiple national film contexts.

Buñuel is discussed in film studies, surrealist cinema history, and analyses of narrative subversion.

Status

Buñuel’s films are examined for their use of symbolism, satire, and nonconventional narrative structure. Interpretations situate his work within surrealist traditions and later developments in European and Latin American cinema.

Film director

Surrealist cinema

European cinema

Film studies