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Buñuel
[ boon-wel; Spanish boo-nywel ]
noun
- Luis [lwees], 1900–83, Spanish film director.
Buñuel
/ buˈɲwel /
noun
- BuñuelLuis19001983MSpanishFILMS AND TV: director Luis (lwis). 1900–83, Spanish film director. He collaborated with Salvador Dali on the first surrealist films, Un Chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1930). His later films include Viridiana (1961), Belle de jour (1966), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Example Sentences
The hive of activity is the Palais, a massive complex by the sea full of cinemas with names like Buñuel, Bazin and, the granddaddy, the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
“The Exterminating Angel,” with a libretto by Adès and Tom Cairns adapted from Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film, is one of the finest operas of the century so far, alongside works by George Benjamin and Kaija Saariaho.
Lanthimos had some guiding references, including films like Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Luis Buñuel’s “Belle du Jour” and Fellini movies.
Pierce attributes some of the piece’s structural irregularities to the Buñuel films.
I don’t know that they were thinking about the Buñuel at the time but that jibes with the filmmaker’s own instincts.”
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