Luis Buñuel
Noah’s Barks pages relating to movie/film director Luis Buñuel.
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Belle de Jour
I continue to like the ideas of Luis Buñuel more than his actual films. His humiliation of the bourgeois continues in Belle de Jour, but there’s an additional element I’d not seen before: an actual sympathy towards sexual deviants as people repressed by the expectations of society. Catherine Deneuve becomes a victim herself as the… (read more)
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Death in the Garden
Death in the Garden is a fairly typical escape/wilderness survival story with the usual themes of psychological degradation. Something so standard is disappointing coming from Luis Buñuel, and while the characters all develop the direction doesn’t transcend the basic plot. And while the premise had not become tired yet, even identifiably unique things like the… (read more)