Hilarious satire on everything Bunuel despised. It works as a series of loosely connected skits that mock everyday conventions, even against conventions of storytelling itself with its structure. The toilet scene is brilliant.
I love Bunuel, this is actually a series of absurd skits, funny and biting at the same time. Not his best, it's worth checking out The Exterminating Angel if you can find it!
I just loved this film. There was so much inspiration in every single scene: people use the dining room as a bathroom and the bathroom as dining room, a strange man gives a girl some "nasty" pictures of historical landmarks, the dead sister calls her brother for an emergency meet...( read more)
Una serie de viñetas unidas por una secuencia en común, un experimento que Buñuel intentó satisfactoriamente y funcionó a la perfección en pantalla, antes que amores perros y todas esas películas de historias unidas por algún suceso, existió ésta cinta.
Comedia que don Luis ante...( read more)
I love Bunuel - I really do. I think he and Jodorowsky are the only surrealists with a real sense of humor. Out of all the Bunuel stuff I've seen, this one is the hardest to sit through. It is thoroughly surreal and ridiculous (as per usual), but made even more so by having ab...( read more)
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