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Apr 05 '01
Pros: Madness, Surrealism, Dinner Parties, and Bullets
Cons: Potato's are square pigs in round hovels
Summary: Spanish director Luis Bunel (Un Chien Andalou, The Exterminating Angel, Tristana) was known for two things: Matini's and Surrealism. His first film, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) was a masterwork of surreal images and...
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Jan 17 '01
Pros: Charming
Cons: Discreet
Summary: Gourmet dining adopts Freudian implications in Luis Buñuel's beguiling The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, which might be said to explore an impotence of sorts brought on by wealth and power. Buñuel, who co-wrote and directed, ducks the literary...
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