Their principal weapon wasn’t guns, of course it was scandal. With regards surrealism, an area of filmmaking for which he is perhaps most highly regarded, he writes: ‘’All of us were supporters of a certain concept of revolution, and although the surrealists didn’t consider themselves terrorists, they were constantly fighting a society they despised.
But once this is fully embraced with such philosophical arms as to be tetchily reminded that not all men are born equal, this testament of filmic memoirs does on occasion, make for revelatory reading.įor such a man as Bunuel who donned countless hats in his lifetime – from that of filmmaker, surrealist and hedonist, to that of Spanish Civil War propagandist, friend and acquaintance of numerous artists and poets (among them Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges) – it ought hardly be surprising that his opinionated candour and vivid imagination, provides for a fascinating literary ride. On the other hand, it could be construed as being pompous beyond the pale, and such pomposity is unfailingly scattered throughout Luis Bunuel’s My Last Sigh. On the one hand, such financial insight(s) into how those born on the right side of the tracks might be considered as being honest and brave. I wound up taking the money back to Paris and spending half of it in my usual nightclubs. So once again I found myself asking my mother for backing, which, thanks to our sympathetic attorney, she consented to provide.
‘’When the script was finished, I realized that we had such an original and provocative movie that no ordinary production company would touch it.
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