Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.When Buñuel died at the age of 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him "an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later". His first picture, Un Chien Andalou—made in the silent era—is still viewed regularly throughout the world and retains its power to shock the viewer, and his last film, That Obscure Object of Desire—made 48 years later—won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Buñuel has received more than 2,515,324 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 68 in 2019). Luis Buñuel is the 15th most popular film director (up from 19th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Spain (up from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Film Director.

Luis Buñuel is most famous for his surrealist films, including L'Age d'Or (1930), Un Chien Andalou (1929), and La Belle et la Bête (1946).