1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:00:44,170 --> 00:00:48,716 Since his presence in the processions of Holy Week in Calanda, 4 00:00:49,091 --> 00:00:52,219 the death has been part of my life. 5 00:00:53,387 --> 00:00:55,347 I've never wanted to ignore it. 6 00:01:41,018 --> 00:01:44,229 Luis Buñuel was born in Aragon at the beginning of the 20th century. 7 00:01:48,359 --> 00:01:52,821 His father had made his fortune in Cuba, with a naval supply store 8 00:01:53,155 --> 00:01:54,823 where they also sold weapons. 9 00:02:01,330 --> 00:02:02,831 He returned to Calanda with many riches 10 00:02:02,915 --> 00:02:06,877 and the intention of marrying a young and beautiful woman. 11 00:02:17,805 --> 00:02:21,350 Luis Buñuel was the first-born of this well off family. 12 00:02:25,271 --> 00:02:29,233 He dedicates a chapter of My Last Breath, his memoir, 13 00:02:29,650 --> 00:02:31,276 to his childhood memories, 14 00:02:34,822 --> 00:02:38,200 under the title of 'Death, Faith, Sex'. 15 00:02:38,617 --> 00:02:43,288 This was a period in his life that he retained vivid memories of as an adult, 16 00:02:44,123 --> 00:02:48,836 memories that made up his inner world and enriched his imagination, 17 00:02:49,253 --> 00:02:52,089 and that he would showcase later throughout his films. 18 00:02:58,387 --> 00:03:02,307 Buñuel's father took a series of stereoscopic photographs around 1910. 19 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:07,980 Buñuel kept these in his house in Mexico. 20 00:03:08,689 --> 00:03:11,400 He sometimes looked at them with the melancholy of the exiled. 21 00:03:56,737 --> 00:03:59,823 Pictures that show us his childhood years. 22 00:04:00,574 --> 00:04:03,994 Buñuel would never forget these early years of his life. 23 00:04:04,745 --> 00:04:07,664 Here we see him sneaking into this picture. 24 00:04:16,799 --> 00:04:24,306 I keep from my distant past, my youth, multiple and clear memories 25 00:04:24,598 --> 00:04:27,934 and also a plethora of faces and names. 26 00:04:34,233 --> 00:04:36,193 Why are you so prideful, son? 27 00:04:36,944 --> 00:04:38,445 I am proud of my freedom. 28 00:04:38,904 --> 00:04:40,614 Buñuel writes in his memoirs: 29 00:04:40,698 --> 00:04:43,701 It was in Calanda that I first interacted with death, 30 00:04:44,493 --> 00:04:48,997 which, alongside a profound faith and the awakening of my sexual instinct, 31 00:04:49,707 --> 00:04:52,459 constitute the living forces of my adolescence. 32 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,295 Look at these so innocent legs! 33 00:05:09,727 --> 00:05:13,647 One day, I was walking with my father through an olive grove, 34 00:05:14,189 --> 00:05:18,443 and the breeze brought to me a sweet and disgusting smell. 35 00:05:19,445 --> 00:05:22,114 A hundred yards away, a dead donkey, 36 00:05:22,865 --> 00:05:25,075 hideously bloated and pecked, 37 00:05:25,701 --> 00:05:28,912 was being feasted on by a dozen vultures and several dogs. 38 00:05:32,499 --> 00:05:37,587 Death made its presence felt constantly and was part of our lives, 39 00:05:38,047 --> 00:05:40,340 as in the Middle Ages, just like faith. 40 00:05:41,008 --> 00:05:45,303 We, deeply anchored in Roman Catholicism, 41 00:05:45,929 --> 00:05:50,433 could not question any of its dogmas, not for a split second. 42 00:05:53,395 --> 00:05:57,690 Our faith really was blind, at least up until we were fourteen, 43 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:03,363 and we all believed in the authenticity of the Calanda's miracle 44 00:06:03,739 --> 00:06:07,409 performed in the year of grace of 1640. 45 00:06:07,993 --> 00:06:13,915 It so happened that a wheel crushed the leg of Miguel Juan Pellicer, 46 00:06:14,249 --> 00:06:17,043 a resident of Calanda, and it had to be amputated. 47 00:06:19,588 --> 00:06:23,008 He was a very pious man who went to church every day, 48 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:26,469 dipped his finger into the Virgin's lamp, 49 00:06:27,179 --> 00:06:28,638 and rubbed his stump with the oil. 50 00:06:29,348 --> 00:06:32,893 One night, the Virgin came down from heaven with her angels 51 00:06:33,435 --> 00:06:35,770 and they gave him a new leg. 52 00:06:38,023 --> 00:06:41,067 In our town, where nobody doubted the story, 53 00:06:41,610 --> 00:06:47,824 it was said that King Philip IV had come to kiss the restored leg 54 00:06:48,367 --> 00:06:51,370 and that he gave Pellicer a medieval armour. 55 00:07:07,719 --> 00:07:10,596 I was only interested in the aspect of the cut leg. 56 00:07:10,806 --> 00:07:13,558 Curiously, that also allured Hitchcock. 57 00:07:14,226 --> 00:07:17,020 During a meal that some Hollywood directors threw for me, 58 00:07:17,104 --> 00:07:21,191 Hitchcock, sitting next to me, repeatedly exclaimed: 59 00:07:21,733 --> 00:07:24,360 'Ah, Tristana's cut off leg…!' 60 00:07:27,448 --> 00:07:33,495 Around 1960 in Mexico I told a French Dominican about Calanda's miracle. 61 00:07:34,413 --> 00:07:36,248 He smiled and said to me: 62 00:07:36,999 --> 00:07:41,545 'My friend, I think that you are crossing the line a little bit.' 63 00:08:00,731 --> 00:08:04,526 My father gifted Calanda's church a superb paso, 64 00:08:04,902 --> 00:08:08,447 one of those sculptures that are paraded in processions, 65 00:08:09,031 --> 00:08:11,867 burned by anarchists during the Civil War. 66 00:08:14,411 --> 00:08:15,703 It is a precious miracle. 67 00:08:16,497 --> 00:08:18,332 Yes, such a wonderful story. 68 00:08:18,790 --> 00:08:22,335 Yes, priest, it is truly beautiful. 69 00:08:23,003 --> 00:08:24,462 Other exist that are much better. 70 00:08:24,755 --> 00:08:27,591 I could tell you many more, until dawn. 71 00:08:29,426 --> 00:08:32,220 There is no sweeter nor deeper mystery… 72 00:08:33,138 --> 00:08:34,347 … than Virgin Mary's. 73 00:08:37,309 --> 00:08:40,937 Maybe God will let us see one of Simon's miracles. 74 00:08:41,230 --> 00:08:42,564 So be it. 75 00:08:43,982 --> 00:08:45,316 You are already well. 76 00:08:45,442 --> 00:08:48,945 And what's the first thing he does with his miraculous hands? 77 00:08:52,491 --> 00:08:55,327 Let me see your hands, father. Are they the same as before? 78 00:08:56,495 --> 00:08:58,997 Shut up, dummy! Leave me alone! 79 00:09:02,334 --> 00:09:04,836 Lord, please give back health to this innocent creature. 80 00:09:05,963 --> 00:09:08,298 In exchange I offer you my health and life, 81 00:09:09,216 --> 00:09:12,802 and humbly accept all calamities and losses, 82 00:09:13,387 --> 00:09:17,224 all the aches and pains that may ail a man. 83 00:09:19,142 --> 00:09:22,019 Help us Lord of Chalma! 84 00:09:22,813 --> 00:09:25,482 Help! Help us oh Lord! 85 00:09:25,566 --> 00:09:28,026 Get out Devil, respect this house! 86 00:09:28,151 --> 00:09:31,654 Back off Satan, you'll get nothing from Santa Cruz 87 00:09:31,738 --> 00:09:33,531 say a thousand times: 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus'. 88 00:09:44,459 --> 00:09:50,882 One could say that where I was born, the Middle Ages lasted until World War I. 89 00:09:52,092 --> 00:09:55,303 Life unfolded, horizontal and monotonous, 90 00:09:55,387 --> 00:09:59,265 most certainly organised and lead by the church's bells. 91 00:10:02,686 --> 00:10:05,689 The very hard fought battles of instinct versus chastity, 92 00:10:06,398 --> 00:10:12,904 even though they were only thoughts, gave us an immense sense of guilt. 93 00:10:17,618 --> 00:10:20,412 'Why is sex seen with such horror in Catholicism?' 94 00:10:21,496 --> 00:10:23,164 I've often asked that myself. 95 00:10:23,582 --> 00:10:28,753 This relentless prohibition creates a feeling of sin that can be delicious. 96 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,213 That's what happened to me for years. 97 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:41,516 In the same manner, and for reasons that escape me, 98 00:10:41,850 --> 00:10:46,437 I've have always felt a certain simile between the sexual act and death. 99 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:49,899 A secret but constant link between them. 100 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:56,323 I've even tried to translate this inexplicable feeling into images, 101 00:10:56,490 --> 00:10:57,491 as in Un Chien Andalou; 102 00:10:57,616 --> 00:11:00,410 when the man caresses the woman's bare breasts, 103 00:11:01,161 --> 00:11:04,289 his face suddenly turns corpse-like. 104 00:11:08,293 --> 00:11:09,502 A corpse-like face. 105 00:11:21,056 --> 00:11:23,683 Could it be because during my youth and childhood, 106 00:11:24,309 --> 00:11:28,730 I was victim of the biggest sexual repression history has ever known? 107 00:11:31,650 --> 00:11:37,864 Anyway, some aspects of my brief time, about three years, 108 00:11:38,323 --> 00:11:42,702 in the exalted ranks of Surrealism, always stuck with me my whole life. 109 00:11:46,373 --> 00:11:48,166 Above all else, what I have left is: 110 00:11:48,667 --> 00:11:53,922 free access to the depths of the self which I so yearned for. 111 00:11:54,339 --> 00:11:56,591 That call to the irrational, 112 00:11:56,967 --> 00:12:01,680 to the impulses that spring from the dark side of the soul. 113 00:12:03,849 --> 00:12:09,437 Before Andrè Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, 114 00:12:09,688 --> 00:12:10,939 dreams already existed. 115 00:12:11,314 --> 00:12:14,608 So did the unconscious world and psychic automatism, 116 00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:17,987 as well as all other elements that the movement stands for. 117 00:12:22,743 --> 00:12:25,954 Just remember The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch. 118 00:12:26,371 --> 00:12:30,375 or the black paintings and caprices of the Aragonese Francisco de Goya. 119 00:12:36,965 --> 00:12:40,969 But also in Buñuel's father's stereoscopic photographs, 120 00:12:41,219 --> 00:12:44,305 we can see a peasant acting in front of the camera. 121 00:12:44,639 --> 00:12:48,309 He just pokes his head out of the branches of a vine 122 00:12:48,477 --> 00:12:53,148 showing a curious and grotesque pre-Surrealist attitude. 123 00:13:15,420 --> 00:13:18,464 The photograph in which Buñuel's parents are posing 124 00:13:18,548 --> 00:13:21,217 with an umbrella next to the mountains of Calanda, 125 00:13:21,676 --> 00:13:24,095 is reminiscent of the Disinherited Mountains, 126 00:13:24,513 --> 00:13:28,016 which many years later would captivate Buñuel in Las Hurdes. 127 00:13:31,353 --> 00:13:32,812 Due to the surrounding landscape, 128 00:13:32,979 --> 00:13:37,108 it appears that this was taken in a property owned by Leonardo Buñuel 129 00:13:37,984 --> 00:13:40,611 which was known as Masada del Vicario. 130 00:13:42,614 --> 00:13:48,453 Buñuel refers to in the 11th spot of the surrealist poem 'A Giraffe'. 131 00:13:49,913 --> 00:13:53,708 Represented in 1933 in Hyeres, 132 00:13:53,792 --> 00:13:58,046 for which artist Alberto Giacometti made this wooden giraffe. 133 00:14:21,945 --> 00:14:25,323 A pig bladder membrane replaces the spot. 134 00:14:26,741 --> 00:14:27,742 Nothing else. 135 00:14:29,411 --> 00:14:31,788 Take the giraffe, transport it to Spain 136 00:14:31,872 --> 00:14:35,333 to put it in the place called Masada del Vicario. 137 00:14:35,834 --> 00:14:38,753 7 kilometres from Calanda, to the south of Aragon. 138 00:14:39,713 --> 00:14:41,423 With its head facing north. 139 00:14:43,258 --> 00:14:46,386 Punch through the membrane and look through the hole. 140 00:14:46,928 --> 00:14:52,850 You'll see a poor whitewashed house in the middle of a desert landscape. 141 00:14:55,312 --> 00:14:59,107 In front: a fig-tree. A few metres from the door. 142 00:15:00,817 --> 00:15:03,194 In the background, bare mountains and olive trees. 143 00:15:04,237 --> 00:15:06,906 Perhaps… right then… 144 00:15:06,990 --> 00:15:09,575 an old ploughman will come out of the house with bare feet. 145 00:15:29,429 --> 00:15:33,766 Among this series of stereoscopic images, three stand out: 146 00:15:34,309 --> 00:15:39,564 those that represent a quarrel between two peasants. 147 00:15:39,689 --> 00:15:46,570 One of our shepherds was stabbed with a knife during a stupid argument. 148 00:15:46,738 --> 00:15:47,447 He was killed. 149 00:15:47,739 --> 00:15:50,825 Every man used to carry a knife tucked in their sash. 150 00:15:51,701 --> 00:15:54,578 There was an autopsy, in the graveyard's chapel 151 00:15:54,663 --> 00:16:00,126 performed by the village doctor and his assistant, who was also a barber. 152 00:16:00,460 --> 00:16:02,336 I managed to sneak in. 153 00:16:03,964 --> 00:16:08,343 Buñuel recreated some behaviours of the inhabitants of Las Hurdes, 154 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,096 making them play themselves in front of the camera. 155 00:16:25,402 --> 00:16:29,739 One of the fiercest men of Calanda was Don Leoncio, one of two doctors 156 00:16:30,031 --> 00:16:31,907 and a republican to the bone. 157 00:16:31,992 --> 00:16:36,538 He had covered his office's walls with full-colour pages from El Motín, 158 00:16:37,288 --> 00:16:40,416 an anarchist and extremely anticlerical magazine, 159 00:16:40,834 --> 00:16:43,169 one very popular back in the Spain of the era. 160 00:17:15,118 --> 00:17:18,830 This enlightened doctor was also interested in insects, 161 00:17:18,913 --> 00:17:20,956 and owned this encyclopedia, 162 00:17:21,583 --> 00:17:27,964 a book that influenced the young Buñuel and awakened his interest in entomology. 163 00:17:46,357 --> 00:17:49,360 Above all, be quiet. Very quiet. 164 00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:51,278 Hold your breath. 165 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,907 Do not move and- Come on! What are you waiting for?! 166 00:17:57,077 --> 00:17:57,827 Good job! 167 00:17:58,578 --> 00:17:59,370 Very good job. 168 00:17:59,454 --> 00:18:00,705 And you had never shot before? 169 00:18:00,789 --> 00:18:01,664 Not really, no. 170 00:18:02,624 --> 00:18:03,249 Very well! 171 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:05,501 I thought you were fond of butterflies. 172 00:18:05,835 --> 00:18:08,587 Yes, I like them. I wish I had missed. 173 00:18:09,047 --> 00:18:12,050 In Madrid, Buñuel lives for a while in the 'Residencia de Estudiantes'. 174 00:18:28,441 --> 00:18:31,485 There he meets other members of the so-called Generation of 27, 175 00:18:31,861 --> 00:18:36,615 such as his friend García Lorca, who dedicates this poem to him: 176 00:18:37,117 --> 00:18:40,537 Special dedication to my beloved Luis Buñuel, 177 00:18:40,620 --> 00:18:43,122 act of eternal friendship, Federico: 178 00:18:43,706 --> 00:18:45,290 Landscape without song. 179 00:18:45,834 --> 00:18:46,793 Blue sky. 180 00:18:47,919 --> 00:18:48,920 Yellow field. 181 00:18:49,295 --> 00:18:50,212 Blue mountain. 182 00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:51,422 Yellow field. 183 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,634 Across the deserted plain… walks an olive tree. 184 00:18:55,635 --> 00:18:56,927 A single olive tree. 185 00:18:58,972 --> 00:19:01,641 He also began his friendship with Salvador Dalí, 186 00:19:01,724 --> 00:19:06,186 who reflected the Madrid atmosphere in the watercolour Late Night Dreams. 187 00:19:06,729 --> 00:19:09,773 Dalí also painted his portrait back then. 188 00:19:17,365 --> 00:19:21,577 Taking notice of the presence of American professors at the Residence, 189 00:19:21,953 --> 00:19:26,457 Buñuel put up a notice to schedule a visit to the Prado Museum. 190 00:19:26,916 --> 00:19:30,210 He pretended to be an expert, in order to play a prank on them: 191 00:19:30,295 --> 00:19:33,881 all this in a museum that, as a matter of fact, he knew quite well. 192 00:19:34,174 --> 00:19:37,010 A large group of Americans came along. 193 00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:39,803 They didn't suspect they were being played. 194 00:19:40,847 --> 00:19:43,307 As I guided them through the museum's rooms 195 00:19:43,933 --> 00:19:46,894 I would tell them the first thing that I could come up with: 196 00:19:48,021 --> 00:19:49,564 that Goya was a bullfighter 197 00:19:49,647 --> 00:19:52,775 and kept fatal sexual relationships with the Alba Duchess. 198 00:19:54,235 --> 00:19:57,738 The North Americans listened to me with a serious demeanour. 199 00:19:58,323 --> 00:20:01,117 Some of them were even taking notes. 200 00:20:01,743 --> 00:20:04,912 But some of them went to complain to the headmaster. 201 00:20:15,256 --> 00:20:18,384 Buñuel would often attend Ramón Gómez de la Serna's gatherings 202 00:20:18,927 --> 00:20:21,429 and as a result discovers the Ultraist movement. 203 00:20:32,232 --> 00:20:35,235 He wrote his first poems and considers publishing them 204 00:20:35,318 --> 00:20:38,738 in a book titled as An Andalusian Dog. 205 00:20:45,870 --> 00:20:49,331 The puddles formed a decapitated domino of buildings, 206 00:20:49,415 --> 00:20:52,668 one of which is the tower described to me as a kid. 207 00:20:53,419 --> 00:20:54,586 It has a single window. 208 00:20:54,963 --> 00:20:58,925 As high as mother's eyes when leaning over the crib. 209 00:21:02,679 --> 00:21:06,516 By the door hangs a hanged-man swinging over the abyss. 210 00:21:06,641 --> 00:21:10,311 enclosed by eternity, howling for space's sake. 211 00:21:10,645 --> 00:21:11,187 It's me. 212 00:21:12,146 --> 00:21:14,857 It is my skeleton of which nothing but the eyes remains. 213 00:21:15,483 --> 00:21:18,694 As soon as they smile at me, they squint… 214 00:21:18,861 --> 00:21:22,239 and going to eat a breadcrumb from within my brain! 215 00:21:28,871 --> 00:21:32,583 The window opens and a woman appears, applying polissoir to her nails. 216 00:21:33,876 --> 00:21:37,337 Once she thinks they're sharp enough she gouges out my eyeballs 217 00:21:37,463 --> 00:21:38,839 and hurls them into the streets. 218 00:21:42,343 --> 00:21:46,972 My sockets are left sightless, alone, without desires, nor sea, nor chicks. 219 00:21:47,056 --> 00:21:47,973 Without anything. 220 00:21:52,937 --> 00:21:56,023 A nurse comes to sit next to me at the coffee table. 221 00:21:56,316 --> 00:22:01,154 She unfolds a newspaper from 1846 and reads with an exalted voice: 222 00:22:02,697 --> 00:22:07,451 When Napoleon's troops entered Zaragoza, the vile Zaragoza, 223 00:22:07,910 --> 00:22:11,038 they just found wind blowing through the empty streets. 224 00:22:11,331 --> 00:22:14,584 Only Luis Buñuel's eyes croaked in a puddle. 225 00:22:15,126 --> 00:22:18,629 Napoleon's soldiers finished them off with their bayonets. 226 00:22:28,806 --> 00:22:34,520 In 1925 Buñuel moved to Paris to learn the ropes of cinema 227 00:22:34,687 --> 00:22:36,897 under the tutelage of Jean Epstein as his assistant. 228 00:22:37,774 --> 00:22:42,361 What impressed me was precisely that wall, that struggle. 229 00:22:42,862 --> 00:22:46,949 It convinced me that cinema was able to awaken artistic emotions. 230 00:22:47,492 --> 00:22:52,663 For the first time, I felt a certain chill, a romantic emotion, 231 00:22:53,331 --> 00:22:57,960 and the chance of showing my world-view to others. 232 00:23:09,847 --> 00:23:13,392 He also had admiration for the North American comic cinema. 233 00:23:24,570 --> 00:23:28,407 Buñuel's interest in comic cinema is key in understanding 234 00:23:28,658 --> 00:23:31,661 the genesis of his first film, 235 00:23:31,953 --> 00:23:37,249 which he began to film at the beginning of April 1929 in Paris. 236 00:23:43,423 --> 00:23:50,680 It is revealing what he wrote to present the 6th session of Madrid's Film Club, 237 00:23:50,888 --> 00:23:56,476 which took place during 1929 with the title EL CINE COMICO: 238 00:23:56,644 --> 00:23:59,355 This session is going to be definitive 239 00:23:59,564 --> 00:24:01,232 and oddly enough, it hasn't been done yet 240 00:24:01,315 --> 00:24:05,736 in any other cinema or club in the whole world. 241 00:24:05,862 --> 00:24:07,947 People are so ridiculous 242 00:24:08,030 --> 00:24:11,616 and have so many prejudices that they believe that Faust or Potemkin 243 00:24:11,826 --> 00:24:15,913 are superior to all the buffoonery, even if they are no such thing; 244 00:24:16,164 --> 00:24:18,833 in these films, which I'd describe as the new poetry, 245 00:24:19,709 --> 00:24:25,756 the surreal equivalent in cinema is found only in these films. 246 00:24:26,174 --> 00:24:29,260 Much more surrealist than Man Ray's films. 247 00:24:39,562 --> 00:24:44,066 He even wrote a review of Buster Keaton's College: 248 00:24:44,692 --> 00:24:48,028 The film is beautiful like a bathroom. 249 00:24:50,072 --> 00:24:53,492 This was a period of time in which he watched three movies a day 250 00:24:53,701 --> 00:24:56,704 and wrote some film reviews. 251 00:25:06,756 --> 00:25:11,218 Curiously enough, his first film premieres alongside Man Ray's: 252 00:25:11,302 --> 00:25:14,680 Les mystères du château de Dé. 253 00:25:15,097 --> 00:25:18,975 Shot at the Viscount of Noailles's mansion in Hyères, 254 00:25:19,101 --> 00:25:21,061 on the French Riviera. 255 00:25:33,032 --> 00:25:37,286 Cinema became the perfect canvas for innovation, 256 00:25:37,370 --> 00:25:40,414 to be playful, to invent a new wave of poetics, 257 00:25:40,498 --> 00:25:44,668 in essence, to portray the world of dreams and the unconscious 258 00:25:44,919 --> 00:25:47,421 just as André Breton advocated for. 259 00:25:50,591 --> 00:25:58,307 Films made between 1926 and 1928 had already used cinema as gateway 260 00:25:58,391 --> 00:25:59,850 for Surrealist creation. 261 00:26:00,476 --> 00:26:06,064 Cinematographic images that were between experimental and avant-garde art, 262 00:26:06,357 --> 00:26:08,734 in between poetry and the breakthrough. 263 00:26:09,485 --> 00:26:13,071 Images that open up new paths to the language of cinema, 264 00:26:13,322 --> 00:26:16,575 to cinema understood as an artwork created by an author. 265 00:26:17,076 --> 00:26:22,414 Works that lie in between the film-art and anti-artistic film… 266 00:26:23,207 --> 00:26:27,461 Films that much like Hans Richter's were destroyed by the Nazis 267 00:26:27,837 --> 00:26:30,297 for being considered 'degenerate art'. 268 00:26:36,220 --> 00:26:39,890 The inner workings of cinema go very well with Surrealism. 269 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:33,736 I played a small role as a smuggler in 'Carmen', 270 00:27:33,861 --> 00:27:36,530 with Raquel Meller, directed by Jacques Feyder, 271 00:27:36,697 --> 00:27:38,865 a director that I still admire. 272 00:27:57,677 --> 00:28:01,180 While he learns about cinematographic recording with Epstein, 273 00:28:01,639 --> 00:28:07,311 he takes part in his films: Mauprat and The Fall of the House of Usher. 274 00:28:26,205 --> 00:28:29,541 During his participation in Siren of the Tropics, 275 00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:35,088 starring Josephine Baker and directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant, 276 00:28:35,297 --> 00:28:38,133 he meets the actor Pierre Batcheff, 277 00:28:38,259 --> 00:28:41,262 who would end up starring in his first film. 278 00:28:41,929 --> 00:28:45,057 In the end, Buñuel does not publish his book of poems, 279 00:28:45,224 --> 00:28:48,644 and he recycles the title for Un Chien Andalou. 280 00:28:49,687 --> 00:28:53,273 Dalí and I, while working on Un Chien Andalou's script, 281 00:28:53,649 --> 00:28:56,652 employed an approach for an automatic writing of sorts, 282 00:28:57,069 --> 00:28:59,780 we were as yet unlabelled surrealists. 283 00:29:44,617 --> 00:29:49,455 They used a method similar to automatic writing, 284 00:29:49,747 --> 00:29:53,459 where, having heard the other's proposal, 285 00:29:53,793 --> 00:29:58,506 they would only have three seconds to accept it or reject it, 286 00:29:58,589 --> 00:30:01,425 without any right to change their minds after, putting ideas together 287 00:30:01,509 --> 00:30:06,138 as if they were gags in a comedy film. 288 00:30:07,515 --> 00:30:11,435 The film was considered surrealist after its premiere in Paris, 289 00:30:11,602 --> 00:30:13,520 making it possible for Buñuel and Dali 290 00:30:13,729 --> 00:30:16,982 to be admitted in the exclusive Surrealist group. 291 00:30:20,361 --> 00:30:23,113 The film received a good amount of praise. 292 00:30:23,197 --> 00:30:29,328 Breton said it was a work that resolved dream and reality, 293 00:30:29,495 --> 00:30:32,206 two apparently contradictory states, 294 00:30:32,665 --> 00:30:37,086 into a kind of absolute reality: a surreality. 295 00:30:45,845 --> 00:30:51,600 After joining the group, Buñuel meets the members of this movement, 296 00:30:51,809 --> 00:30:55,020 as well as personalities from the world of the French culture, 297 00:30:55,145 --> 00:30:57,730 such as Cocteau, who was so enthusiastic about the film 298 00:30:57,857 --> 00:31:00,651 that he would put him in contact with the Viscount of Noailles, 299 00:31:00,734 --> 00:31:04,487 who would later finance his second film: L'Age d'Or. 300 00:31:04,613 --> 00:31:08,116 This was originally envisioned as the sequel to Un Chien Andalou, 301 00:31:08,576 --> 00:31:13,330 as the provisional title for the script shows: La Bete Andalouse. 302 00:31:13,789 --> 00:31:19,920 Buñuel started to write this script with Dalí in early December of 1929. 303 00:31:27,845 --> 00:31:31,765 In this work we can clearly see the influence of the Marquis de Sade: 304 00:31:31,849 --> 00:31:35,936 With Sade I discovered an extraordinary subversive world, 305 00:31:36,353 --> 00:31:41,608 that fits everything: from insects to the tradition of the human society, 306 00:31:41,692 --> 00:31:43,777 sex, theology… 307 00:31:43,861 --> 00:31:46,321 Oh well… he truly fascinated me. 308 00:31:49,199 --> 00:31:53,828 There is no religion that doesn't bear imposture stigma and stupidity 309 00:31:55,205 --> 00:32:00,877 But if one of them truly deserves our hatred and contempt, 310 00:32:01,587 --> 00:32:04,298 that would be this barbarous religion of Christianity. 311 00:32:04,423 --> 00:32:06,299 Nature is self-sufficient. 312 00:32:06,842 --> 00:32:11,596 That deified ghost is nothing more than a tale invented by arrivistes. 313 00:32:12,431 --> 00:32:15,600 A scandalous vulgarity that deserves not a single minute of reflection. 314 00:32:17,770 --> 00:32:20,481 The other great influence is by Freud: 315 00:32:20,564 --> 00:32:23,316 The struggle between Eros and Thanatos, 316 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,861 between sexual desire and a destructive impulse. 317 00:32:27,029 --> 00:32:33,702 These influences reappear years later in his Mexican, Spanish and French films. 318 00:32:33,786 --> 00:32:40,209 L'Age d'or is a romantic film, featuring Surrealism's full-force. 319 00:32:40,334 --> 00:32:46,048 The only work I filmed with euphoria, enthusiasm and destructive fever. 320 00:32:46,131 --> 00:32:53,388 I wanted to attack order and ridicule their eternal principles. 321 00:32:53,681 --> 00:32:55,641 I was determined to provoke a scandal. 322 00:32:56,934 --> 00:33:00,812 The scandal would arrive very soon: the cinema was attacked 323 00:33:00,896 --> 00:33:04,357 by the Camelots du Roi, a right-wing extremist group. 324 00:33:04,608 --> 00:33:08,153 The paintings displayed at the entrance were destroyed, 325 00:33:08,278 --> 00:33:12,365 and the film was forbidden in France for 50 years. 326 00:33:12,574 --> 00:33:14,534 A tremendous Surrealist success! 327 00:33:14,702 --> 00:33:19,540 Years later, Buñuel included a poster of that extreme right-wing group 328 00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:23,335 in the film The Diary of a Chambermaid. 329 00:33:28,048 --> 00:33:33,553 Surrealism made me understand that freedom and justice do not exist, 330 00:33:33,846 --> 00:33:36,181 but it also has given me a moral code. 331 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,897 In 1932 I left the Surrealist group, 332 00:33:44,064 --> 00:33:47,108 although I was on good terms with my former companions. 333 00:33:48,527 --> 00:33:52,906 I started to disagree with that kind of intellectual aristocracy, 334 00:33:53,323 --> 00:33:57,368 with their artistic and moral extremes that isolated us from the world, 335 00:33:57,453 --> 00:34:00,038 that limited ourselves to our own company. 336 00:34:01,373 --> 00:34:04,501 With the documentary Las Hurdes, Buñuel condemns injustice 337 00:34:04,668 --> 00:34:09,756 and contributes to the social change that the Spanish Republic promotes. 338 00:34:09,965 --> 00:34:13,259 in opposition to the privileges that the Catholic Church 339 00:34:13,427 --> 00:34:14,970 was trying to perpetuate. 340 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:22,477 With a left-wing political commitment close to anarchism, 341 00:34:22,686 --> 00:34:25,063 he overcomes the contradictions of Surrealism, as well as 342 00:34:25,147 --> 00:34:26,565 his own bourgeois condition. 343 00:34:27,441 --> 00:34:31,528 Without this transformation the documentary would have never happened 344 00:34:31,945 --> 00:34:36,991 and yet, at the same time, the influence of Surrealism is clear 345 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:40,996 in its aesthetic too, as if it were a nightmare. 346 00:34:42,247 --> 00:34:47,085 Poverty, famine, incest, consequence of a horrible misery, 347 00:34:47,795 --> 00:34:50,214 have resulted in many disabled inhabitants. 348 00:34:55,344 --> 00:34:57,971 After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War 349 00:34:58,055 --> 00:35:04,686 Buñuel moves to Paris to collaborate in the International 1937 Exhibition. 350 00:35:05,771 --> 00:35:12,027 The Spanish Republic tries to get help from the Occidental Democracies, 351 00:35:12,486 --> 00:35:17,532 to counter Hitler and Mussolini's support to Franco's troops. 352 00:35:37,511 --> 00:35:40,597 The Spanish Republic commissioned El Guernica by Picasso, 353 00:35:40,764 --> 00:35:43,475 an iconic work of the 20th century. 354 00:35:44,309 --> 00:35:50,023 In a pioneering manner, a screen was erected where Buñuel showed Spanish films. 355 00:35:51,316 --> 00:35:57,530 He takes part in the creation of the Republic's documentary, Spain 1936, 356 00:35:58,157 --> 00:36:03,245 which was made using fragments filmed by cameramen at the front-lines. 357 00:36:10,002 --> 00:36:15,048 From Le Havre, the same place where he ends Un Chien Andalou's shooting, 358 00:36:15,382 --> 00:36:22,097 Buñuel and his family depart towards the United States in September 1938. 359 00:36:23,265 --> 00:36:28,895 He can film his friends and family with a small camera in that country. 360 00:36:35,485 --> 00:36:38,571 Here we can see his son Rafael and Jeanne, his wife. 361 00:36:45,746 --> 00:36:50,167 He also filmed his son Juan Luis playing in Central Park, New York. 362 00:36:56,632 --> 00:37:01,178 He was hired by MumA in New York as Editor-in-Chief, 363 00:37:02,012 --> 00:37:07,142 until he was forced to resign after Dalí's book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí 364 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:10,061 accused him of being a communist and atheist. 365 00:37:11,021 --> 00:37:15,025 Now unable to provide for his wife Jeanne Rucar and his two sons, 366 00:37:15,609 --> 00:37:18,737 he was forced to go back to Los Angeles to search for a job. 367 00:37:21,406 --> 00:37:23,783 There he was, cleaning a table, when suddenly… 368 00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:26,661 Denise Tual found me, and she was interested 369 00:37:26,828 --> 00:37:29,121 in making, in Paris, a film version 370 00:37:29,206 --> 00:37:32,334 of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. 371 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,252 She offered it to me to direct. 372 00:37:35,128 --> 00:37:36,170 I went with her to Mexico. 373 00:37:36,713 --> 00:37:40,133 The project with Lorca's work didn't fly, 374 00:37:40,759 --> 00:37:45,180 but she introduced me to the producer Óscar Dancigers, who said to me: 375 00:37:45,889 --> 00:37:47,015 "I have something for you." 376 00:37:48,767 --> 00:37:50,101 " Would you stay in Mexico?" 377 00:37:50,936 --> 00:37:55,190 Mexico, a country that, as it did for so many other Spanish refugees, 378 00:37:55,357 --> 00:37:56,274 took him in. 379 00:37:56,358 --> 00:37:58,735 There Buñuel would get back to filmmaking. 380 00:37:58,819 --> 00:38:03,406 Films that ranged from a 'rent-paying cinema', as Buñuel put it, 381 00:38:03,573 --> 00:38:05,283 to a profoundly personal kind of cinema. 382 00:38:05,701 --> 00:38:10,997 This period is often undervalued, despite having true masterpieces, 383 00:38:11,373 --> 00:38:17,087 films in which Buñuel's passing through the wild and subterranean 384 00:38:17,170 --> 00:38:19,881 water flows of Surrealism is apparent, 385 00:38:20,465 --> 00:38:24,051 although the roots of his Spanish culture also emerge. 386 00:38:37,524 --> 00:38:41,319 There is a visual poetry running throughout Don Luis' fiction, 387 00:38:41,403 --> 00:38:44,155 like a surreal stream. 388 00:38:44,823 --> 00:38:46,699 Throughout all his cinema, 389 00:38:47,075 --> 00:38:50,286 Buñuel was able to create disturbing images, 390 00:38:50,537 --> 00:38:52,580 scenes that are at odds with the story, 391 00:38:52,664 --> 00:38:56,209 due to the apparent lack of relation or logic., 392 00:38:56,710 --> 00:39:02,674 images that can't be reduced just to one meaning, nor even a symbolic one. 393 00:39:24,571 --> 00:39:29,409 One of the trapped women carries, for whichever reason, chicken feet 394 00:39:29,493 --> 00:39:30,869 in her handbag. 395 00:39:31,370 --> 00:39:37,084 These forewarn the viewer about the destruction of the bourgeois order. 396 00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:41,963 At the Kabbalah we call 'keys' to those magical objects 397 00:39:42,047 --> 00:39:44,257 that can open the doors to the unknown. 398 00:39:46,635 --> 00:39:49,596 Now, Blanca… Grab it tightly! 399 00:39:51,223 --> 00:39:52,224 Like that. 400 00:39:54,017 --> 00:40:00,106 And you, Silvia, the other way around, there we go. 401 00:40:15,414 --> 00:40:22,421 The same fixations, tendencies, obsessions, always flourish. 402 00:40:23,338 --> 00:40:27,133 All of my films resemble each other to a degree. 403 00:40:54,035 --> 00:40:59,165 Little dove from the South… little dove! 404 00:41:11,511 --> 00:41:16,098 Roosters and hens are part of many visions that I have, 405 00:41:16,183 --> 00:41:17,767 convulsive sometimes. 406 00:41:18,477 --> 00:41:19,561 It can't be explained, 407 00:41:20,061 --> 00:41:24,732 but I can't help but to see them as nightmarish creatures. 408 00:41:38,705 --> 00:41:41,207 At first, instead of Tristana, 409 00:41:41,333 --> 00:41:44,794 I considered naming the film Roosters Wanted To Sing. 410 00:41:59,518 --> 00:42:03,813 A dear topic to the Surrealists was that of 'mad love'. 411 00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:10,027 In some films romantic passion is treated with a dark humour. 412 00:42:15,659 --> 00:42:18,495 Ujo! Little fella! 413 00:42:20,747 --> 00:42:22,290 Where did you drop your body? 414 00:42:22,374 --> 00:42:24,167 You just brought your head! 415 00:42:24,918 --> 00:42:28,421 I came to say that I am going with all of you, because I love you! 416 00:42:28,672 --> 00:42:32,759 I too have my heart in my snout because of you! My little treasure! 417 00:42:33,218 --> 00:42:37,138 Beatriz! Ujo is coming with us, he says he loves me! 418 00:42:37,347 --> 00:42:39,223 Love is the most beautiful thing there is, right? 419 00:42:40,475 --> 00:42:41,684 Do you really love her, little Ujo? 420 00:42:41,810 --> 00:42:43,394 Yes, I love her. 421 00:42:44,396 --> 00:42:49,567 You might be ugly, public… Truly I had never loved before, 422 00:42:50,277 --> 00:42:53,989 but when I first saw you for real… What a fondness I felt! 423 00:42:54,948 --> 00:42:57,283 You see? He's my boyfriend! 424 00:42:58,076 --> 00:43:00,578 Like all conventional love scenes, 425 00:43:00,996 --> 00:43:02,247 this one bothered me. 426 00:43:02,539 --> 00:43:04,040 So I tried to sabotage it. 427 00:43:04,541 --> 00:43:07,502 How could've I imagined before coming to the camps… 428 00:43:07,877 --> 00:43:09,503 that I would get mixed up in all this? 429 00:43:11,506 --> 00:43:13,341 Or that I would meet you? 430 00:43:14,426 --> 00:43:15,176 Nor did I. 431 00:43:15,510 --> 00:43:17,595 I came here to see my brother, to meet him. 432 00:43:18,305 --> 00:43:19,139 And here we are… 433 00:43:20,140 --> 00:43:25,061 In a romantic sequence, Buñuel shows us a puddle of sludge, 434 00:43:25,186 --> 00:43:29,148 an ironic contrast with the sentimentalism of this scene, 435 00:43:29,691 --> 00:43:32,694 which also is reminiscent of the magma of L'Age d'Or. 436 00:43:58,303 --> 00:44:02,974 Mad love, passionate and desperate, contrasts with the representation 437 00:44:03,058 --> 00:44:05,101 of desire in many of his films 438 00:44:05,769 --> 00:44:07,687 which always avoid being explicit. 439 00:44:08,021 --> 00:44:10,023 Since, as Buñuel said: 440 00:44:10,357 --> 00:44:13,443 I find on-screen kisses repugnant. 441 00:44:17,739 --> 00:44:22,869 When Jaibo manages to seduce Marta, Pedro's mother in Los Olvidados, 442 00:44:22,952 --> 00:44:26,538 he literally shuts the door on our faces. 443 00:44:27,832 --> 00:44:28,749 Leaving already? 444 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,720 Popsicles! Popsicles! 445 00:44:42,514 --> 00:44:45,058 There's popsicles! Ice-cream! 446 00:44:45,767 --> 00:44:46,976 Do you fancy one? 447 00:44:47,519 --> 00:44:49,395 Sure! If he has a chocolate one… 448 00:44:50,355 --> 00:44:51,397 Give me two chocolate ones. 449 00:44:55,777 --> 00:44:56,778 Thank you. 450 00:44:58,154 --> 00:45:03,742 The car's engine heating up contrasts with the ice cream the protagonists eat, 451 00:45:04,119 --> 00:45:09,374 signifying that the car's engine is not the only thing that's heating up. 452 00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:12,168 Virginia, since that day in which… 453 00:45:12,961 --> 00:45:13,920 Don't you remember? 454 00:45:14,295 --> 00:45:16,005 Whenever I close my eyes I see you. 455 00:45:17,257 --> 00:45:18,758 And I see you because… 456 00:45:21,010 --> 00:45:22,052 You're not helping me? 457 00:45:22,721 --> 00:45:23,680 Helping you? 458 00:45:23,930 --> 00:45:24,805 Yes. 459 00:45:25,265 --> 00:45:26,516 To tell you that I love you. 460 00:45:27,976 --> 00:45:29,060 Then tell me! 461 00:45:29,686 --> 00:45:30,895 But I just told you… 462 00:45:31,479 --> 00:45:32,396 Told me what? 463 00:45:33,815 --> 00:45:34,732 That I love you! 464 00:45:38,027 --> 00:45:39,570 It must've cooled down by now. 465 00:45:39,696 --> 00:45:41,823 No, no way! I was telling you that— 466 00:45:41,906 --> 00:45:42,990 I'm going to try! 467 00:46:14,105 --> 00:46:18,192 In the strange dream-hallucination that Oliverio has, 468 00:46:19,152 --> 00:46:24,699 An apple peel goes from his mouth to the fruit his mother is peeling. 469 00:46:25,742 --> 00:46:28,453 A peel that Raquel, the temptress, bites. 470 00:46:31,873 --> 00:46:36,043 Once this Freudian umbilical cord of sorts is cut, 471 00:46:36,461 --> 00:46:38,129 they are free to lay together, 472 00:46:38,338 --> 00:46:43,092 to quench their desire, accompanied by the jovial and improvised music. 473 00:46:44,010 --> 00:46:48,639 Take notice of the final joke, with a lamb on Oliverio's lap. 474 00:46:52,936 --> 00:46:54,562 Thinking about me? 475 00:47:12,497 --> 00:47:17,168 Also revealing is the act of Simon's mother covering the anthills, 476 00:47:17,627 --> 00:47:21,255 as if she was trying to protect her son from the itch of desire. 477 00:47:21,631 --> 00:47:26,052 also shown in the ant-covered hand in Un Chien Andalou. 478 00:47:43,236 --> 00:47:47,657 Buñuel uses the film Susana to take revenge, with humour, 479 00:47:47,866 --> 00:47:49,742 for the failure of Gran Casino. 480 00:47:50,869 --> 00:47:54,956 The passion that the protagonist provokes, alters the patriarchal order 481 00:47:55,039 --> 00:47:56,874 at the farmhouse of Mr. Guadalupe, 482 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,710 affecting him 483 00:47:59,502 --> 00:48:01,504 and also Jesús, the farm's overseer. 484 00:48:02,046 --> 00:48:04,465 They will scold me because of you! 485 00:48:04,674 --> 00:48:05,883 Listen, girlie… 486 00:48:06,009 --> 00:48:08,636 If you stick your neck out, no one but me will scold you. 487 00:48:08,761 --> 00:48:10,846 I'd rather choose the one that can scold me. 488 00:48:11,264 --> 00:48:12,515 You've made me all dirty! 489 00:48:14,267 --> 00:48:15,434 now you know… 490 00:48:16,269 --> 00:48:19,188 If you ever want to ride around the countryside, you let me know. 491 00:48:19,272 --> 00:48:22,024 Then wait for me sitting, because you'll get tired standing up. 492 00:48:23,526 --> 00:48:27,029 Here the nun shows us her legs while undressing. 493 00:48:40,835 --> 00:48:45,631 Buñuel uses his cinema as dictated by the Surrealist's thesis of scandal, 494 00:48:45,715 --> 00:48:48,175 and is therefore critical towards the bourgeois society, 495 00:48:48,259 --> 00:48:51,637 and especially towards the clergy. 496 00:48:52,472 --> 00:48:53,806 Good morning, Moncho! 497 00:48:53,890 --> 00:48:54,849 Good morning. 498 00:48:54,933 --> 00:48:57,852 Good morning, Rita. How will you behave today? 499 00:48:57,936 --> 00:48:59,228 Today? Very well! 500 00:49:02,023 --> 00:49:03,858 Do I bother you with my milk glass? 501 00:49:04,734 --> 00:49:05,609 No, ma'am. 502 00:49:07,862 --> 00:49:09,071 Is it very difficult? 503 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:10,155 No, not really. 504 00:49:11,491 --> 00:49:12,241 Here, you try it. 505 00:49:12,951 --> 00:49:16,454 - Oh! But I don't know how to… - Here, sit down. 506 00:49:19,874 --> 00:49:21,500 You have to pull very hard. 507 00:49:21,584 --> 00:49:23,752 - Grab it tightly! - You shut it, brat! 508 00:49:24,170 --> 00:49:25,963 Grab it, don't be afraid, Miss. 509 00:49:26,464 --> 00:49:28,591 Mr. Jaime is very good at it! 510 00:49:28,758 --> 00:49:31,385 - Come on, get out of here! - I don't want to! 511 00:49:41,104 --> 00:49:43,106 Tears or willow trees over the riverbank. 512 00:49:43,189 --> 00:49:44,565 Of golden teeth. 513 00:49:44,816 --> 00:49:46,192 Of pollen teeth. 514 00:49:46,567 --> 00:49:47,776 Like the mouth of a young maiden, 515 00:49:47,860 --> 00:49:50,070 from whose hair the river was sprouting. 516 00:49:50,989 --> 00:49:52,657 In each droplet a small fish. 517 00:49:52,865 --> 00:49:54,908 In each fish a golden tooth. 518 00:49:55,034 --> 00:49:58,662 In each golden tooth, a 15-year-old smile. 519 00:49:59,497 --> 00:50:01,665 For the dragonflies to breed on. 520 00:50:03,418 --> 00:50:08,714 What might maidens think of when the wind makes her thighs visible? 521 00:50:38,286 --> 00:50:39,287 This way. 522 00:50:44,417 --> 00:50:46,293 I've brought you asphodels. 523 00:50:47,462 --> 00:50:48,671 You used to like them so much… 524 00:50:50,006 --> 00:50:51,173 You're so beautiful… 525 00:50:52,216 --> 00:50:54,801 Your skin looks so white still… 526 00:50:55,053 --> 00:50:58,473 Fetishist rituals have a religious component to them, 527 00:50:58,639 --> 00:51:02,184 and lie somewhere between eroticism and death. 528 00:51:35,009 --> 00:51:37,636 Everyone has fetishes to a degree. 529 00:51:37,929 --> 00:51:40,222 But some take it too far… 530 00:51:42,975 --> 00:51:46,853 A SPANISH FILM WINS THE PALME D'OR AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 531 00:51:47,063 --> 00:51:51,275 The Cannes Film Festival contributed to Buñuel's international expansion, 532 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:55,487 and awakened Serge Silberman's interest in producing his films. 533 00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,325 Silberman introduced him to Jean Claude Carrière, 534 00:51:59,867 --> 00:52:02,286 with whom Buñuel would write eight scripts, 535 00:52:02,537 --> 00:52:05,039 as well as his memoirs. 536 00:52:05,706 --> 00:52:10,877 This creative partnership helped him to shoot six films in France, 537 00:52:11,420 --> 00:52:15,048 films in which Buñuel remains faithful to Surrealism 538 00:52:15,174 --> 00:52:17,676 as well as his most intimate of obsessions. 539 00:52:21,264 --> 00:52:23,474 Walk! Walk, walk! 540 00:52:27,603 --> 00:52:30,314 I want to see the way those little boots move! 541 00:52:35,862 --> 00:52:38,573 To see my little boots alive again! 542 00:52:44,704 --> 00:52:48,749 We can't imitate Buñuel, because the surrealistic ethos implies 543 00:52:48,833 --> 00:52:51,502 taking into account our own inner selves, 544 00:52:51,711 --> 00:52:53,838 our memories and our obsessions. 545 00:52:54,213 --> 00:52:55,964 That which makes us unique. 546 00:53:46,432 --> 00:53:48,725 The pleasure of watching in secret. 547 00:53:48,976 --> 00:53:51,019 To see without being seen. 548 00:54:00,279 --> 00:54:01,405 Come here! 549 00:54:02,156 --> 00:54:03,532 We're being spied. 550 00:54:09,830 --> 00:54:11,957 Francisco, what are you going to do? 551 00:54:18,214 --> 00:54:22,593 The painter Victor Brauner was moved by the scene of the sliced eye, 552 00:54:22,843 --> 00:54:25,554 because he had painted himself missing an eye. 553 00:54:29,558 --> 00:54:33,562 Not long after he tried to stop a fight between two painters, 554 00:54:33,646 --> 00:54:36,357 a glass hit him in the eye and he was blinded. 555 00:54:44,615 --> 00:54:49,328 The film Los Olvidados is one of the best and most important 556 00:54:49,412 --> 00:54:52,331 of all of the works he filmed in Mexico. 557 00:54:52,707 --> 00:54:56,001 Aside from being the beginning for the so called 'Third Cinema', 558 00:54:56,085 --> 00:54:58,170 where cinema was utilised as a form of social denunciation, 559 00:54:58,421 --> 00:55:03,551 the film has also been registered by UNESCO at the Memory of the World Programme. 560 00:55:04,093 --> 00:55:08,263 In this work, surrealist poetry has a strong presence, 561 00:55:08,347 --> 00:55:10,015 just as Buñuel viewed it. 562 00:55:12,435 --> 00:55:18,107 In the sequence of Pedro's dream, every element of drama is condensed., 563 00:55:18,399 --> 00:55:22,027 it's a scene Buñuel made some changes to, 564 00:55:22,236 --> 00:55:24,905 which can be inferred from analysing the script. 565 00:55:25,364 --> 00:55:28,408 It manages to merge, as Octavio Paz said: 566 00:55:28,659 --> 00:55:31,828 […] Spanish tradition with Mexican imagery. 567 00:55:36,042 --> 00:55:37,126 Mum! 568 00:55:38,753 --> 00:55:42,006 Mum! Why didn't you give me bread last night? 569 00:56:01,025 --> 00:56:05,738 Cinema is a wonderful and dangerous weapon; 570 00:56:07,114 --> 00:56:10,659 if wielded by a free spirit, it's the best instrument to express 571 00:56:10,910 --> 00:56:12,077 emotions… 572 00:56:12,161 --> 00:56:13,203 instinct… 573 00:56:21,670 --> 00:56:22,796 Give it to me! 574 00:56:23,214 --> 00:56:25,591 It's mine! It's just for me! 575 00:56:39,355 --> 00:56:44,568 The representation of 'Jaibo's' agony after being shot down by the police, 576 00:56:44,777 --> 00:56:47,905 is yet another instance of a Mument inspired by Surrealism, 577 00:56:48,406 --> 00:56:52,118 one carried out with a striking economy of means. 578 00:56:53,202 --> 00:56:54,995 Stop or I'll shoot! 579 00:56:58,958 --> 00:57:04,338 One less… one less… one by one they'll all fall. 580 00:57:06,132 --> 00:57:10,761 I wish they'd kill them all before they were born! 581 00:57:10,970 --> 00:57:15,933 Nobody is entirely evil nor completely good in my films. 582 00:57:16,475 --> 00:57:17,809 No black-and-white thinking. 583 00:57:17,893 --> 00:57:20,645 Look, Jaibo! That scruffy mutt! 584 00:57:21,188 --> 00:57:22,022 Look at him! 585 00:57:22,314 --> 00:57:23,148 Here he comes… 586 00:57:24,567 --> 00:57:26,527 No… no! 587 00:57:27,903 --> 00:57:30,113 I'm already falling into the black hole… 588 00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:32,532 I'm alone… 589 00:57:33,826 --> 00:57:34,785 Alone… 590 00:57:36,454 --> 00:57:38,164 Like always, my dear son… 591 00:57:38,456 --> 00:57:39,623 Like always… 592 00:57:45,921 --> 00:57:47,505 Hello, Joseph! 593 00:57:49,341 --> 00:57:51,051 Are you… strolling around the forest? 594 00:57:51,594 --> 00:57:53,846 Look! Snails! Do you want some? 595 00:57:55,931 --> 00:57:56,681 No, thanks. 596 00:58:52,238 --> 00:58:56,075 I wish I could steer my dreams in accordance to my desires, 597 00:58:56,158 --> 00:58:59,494 if I could, I'd never wake up. 598 00:59:09,547 --> 00:59:14,593 The performance of Don Juan Tenorio captivated him when he was in Madrid. 599 00:59:14,843 --> 00:59:19,347 He got to play a part in a production of the Residencia de Estudiantes. 600 00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:22,934 It is a theatre play in which desire crosses paths with death, 601 00:59:23,143 --> 00:59:25,145 and reality with fantasy. 602 00:59:25,479 --> 00:59:30,400 A play that represents the filming of one of his recurring dreams: 603 00:59:31,026 --> 00:59:33,862 he finds himself acting and forgets his lines. 604 00:59:34,154 --> 00:59:38,283 A dream within a dream within a film. 605 00:59:41,954 --> 00:59:43,455 What's the meaning of this joke? 606 01:00:10,608 --> 01:00:15,946 And to show your courage you have invited the Commander to have dinner. 607 01:00:16,322 --> 01:00:21,994 And… to show your courage… you have invited the Commander… 608 01:00:29,043 --> 01:00:30,127 He's insulted you… 609 01:00:30,210 --> 01:00:31,169 It's incredible… 610 01:00:31,253 --> 01:00:32,295 Excuse me. 611 01:00:39,678 --> 01:00:40,470 Colonel… 612 01:00:48,020 --> 01:00:53,150 The passion for dreaming, it's the limit between desire and reality. 613 01:00:59,156 --> 01:00:59,698 Hey! 614 01:00:59,948 --> 01:01:03,576 There is a relationship between imagination and reality. 615 01:01:04,244 --> 01:01:07,080 There is not a separation as light and dark. 616 01:01:07,706 --> 01:01:11,084 There is mutual influence, it exchanges elements. 617 01:01:25,557 --> 01:01:32,230 When an image is shocking, I keep it I don't analyse it or wonder how 618 01:01:32,523 --> 01:01:38,320 it came to be, if via association of ideas, emotion, a dream, a memory… 619 01:01:38,779 --> 01:01:43,450 Us surrealists abandon ourselves to being invaded by images. 620 01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:49,998 Being looked at with the eyes of an entomologist, 621 01:01:50,082 --> 01:01:52,084 and abundant sense of humour, 622 01:01:52,167 --> 01:01:55,962 the characters face fate's ups and downs. 623 01:01:57,381 --> 01:02:00,092 Do not bless me alongside my goats! 624 01:02:01,093 --> 01:02:02,135 Although I esteem you. 625 01:02:02,761 --> 01:02:03,636 And I love you. 626 01:02:03,929 --> 01:02:06,431 I think that this fella has lost it! 627 01:02:09,059 --> 01:02:12,062 And it must be because he's been feasting on air alone! 628 01:02:16,984 --> 01:02:22,239 My father, who was a wealthy emigrant commissioned a 1900s style house, 629 01:02:22,322 --> 01:02:23,990 a bit Art-Nouveau-esque. 630 01:02:24,074 --> 01:02:25,492 I'm in love with that era. 631 01:02:27,369 --> 01:02:30,038 Every time I see this living room I wonder how could the architect 632 01:02:30,122 --> 01:02:32,082 come up with such strange ideas. 633 01:02:33,083 --> 01:02:37,504 Nothing seems to be guided by reason but by feelings, emotions… 634 01:02:38,714 --> 01:02:39,631 … instinct. 635 01:02:40,174 --> 01:02:42,885 Yes, truly, it is rather strange. 636 01:02:43,302 --> 01:02:47,556 This house was built by Francisco's father when he returned from Paris. 637 01:02:47,639 --> 01:02:49,807 Right after the Exposition of 1900. 638 01:02:50,309 --> 01:02:53,979 He wasn't an architect, but was him who was inspired and planned it out 639 01:02:54,062 --> 01:02:55,229 with the engineer. 640 01:02:55,731 --> 01:02:58,775 He must've been a very original and capricious man. 641 01:02:58,859 --> 01:03:03,822 The complete opposite to Francisco who is sensible and perfectly normal. 642 01:03:09,119 --> 01:03:14,249 Francisco, paranoid protagonist of Él, is horrified to observe 643 01:03:14,333 --> 01:03:15,959 what happens at church. 644 01:03:50,494 --> 01:03:51,161 My God… 645 01:03:51,995 --> 01:03:53,663 They know it all… 646 01:03:54,373 --> 01:03:55,707 They know it all… 647 01:03:58,252 --> 01:04:00,212 They are mocking me… 648 01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:12,348 You too father Velasco! You too! 649 01:04:27,573 --> 01:04:31,827 A most beautiful picture of Jesus's thorn-crowned head, 650 01:04:32,244 --> 01:04:34,287 but letting out a guffaw. 651 01:04:37,165 --> 01:04:41,085 The same image we see 27 years later in Nazarín. 652 01:05:01,607 --> 01:05:02,983 Hey, what might this be? 653 01:05:03,984 --> 01:05:04,901 Let me see… 654 01:05:05,819 --> 01:05:07,111 Do you know what it is? 655 01:05:07,738 --> 01:05:09,531 No, it must be one of those things blind people make. 656 01:05:09,615 --> 01:05:13,160 No, man, it's one of those rosaries Catholics use to pray to the Virgin. 657 01:05:13,827 --> 01:05:14,619 Oh really? 658 01:05:15,370 --> 01:05:16,913 Truth is a myth, 659 01:05:17,039 --> 01:05:21,668 being materialistic does not mean denying imagination, fantasy… 660 01:05:24,838 --> 01:05:28,883 The Angelus prayer is a part of his childhood memories. 661 01:05:29,009 --> 01:05:31,928 In Viridiana he presents to us an alternate montage in which 662 01:05:32,012 --> 01:05:36,099 he juxtaposes classic praying with the construction work 663 01:05:36,183 --> 01:05:38,476 for modernising a manor. 664 01:05:40,437 --> 01:05:42,397 The Lord's angel announced to Mary… 665 01:05:43,690 --> 01:05:45,650 And she gave birth through the working of the Holy Ghost. 666 01:05:46,026 --> 01:05:48,570 Hail Mary, full art of grace, the Lord is with you… 667 01:05:51,406 --> 01:05:54,367 … and blessed is the fruit of your womb. 668 01:05:54,576 --> 01:05:57,412 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us, poor sinners… 669 01:06:00,666 --> 01:06:02,250 I am the handmaid of the Lord… 670 01:06:02,542 --> 01:06:04,043 … let it be to me according… 671 01:06:07,297 --> 01:06:08,464 Is the soup ready? 672 01:06:12,219 --> 01:06:13,011 It's freezing! 673 01:06:13,136 --> 01:06:14,929 And I don't know how to heat it up. 674 01:06:19,518 --> 01:06:21,478 Do you name the bulls? Like with cats? 675 01:06:21,895 --> 01:06:22,520 Of course! 676 01:06:22,729 --> 01:06:25,189 Most of them are called 'Regret'. 677 01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:28,401 Except the last one, whose name is 'Atonement'. 678 01:06:39,496 --> 01:06:42,582 The same criticism against religion appears years later in Viridiana. 679 01:06:42,916 --> 01:06:46,920 The Vatican attacked it after it received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival, 680 01:06:47,671 --> 01:06:49,881 causing an enormous scandal. 681 01:06:50,090 --> 01:06:55,220 For the Surrealists this meant, as we've seen, a great success. 682 01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:01,309 The film was banned in Spain up until the arrival of democracy. 683 01:07:01,601 --> 01:07:07,857 Buñuel, despite the scandal continued to value his creative freedom: 684 01:07:08,025 --> 01:07:11,695 Viridiana continues my personal tradition since L'Age d'Or, 685 01:07:11,820 --> 01:07:13,696 and with 30 years between them, 686 01:07:13,780 --> 01:07:17,492 they are the two films that I've made with the most freedom. 687 01:07:18,452 --> 01:07:22,497 Enedina is going to take a portrait of us all to keep as a memento. 688 01:07:22,581 --> 01:07:24,082 And with what machine? 689 01:07:24,166 --> 01:07:26,042 With one that my parents gave me. 690 01:07:26,668 --> 01:07:28,461 Get over there! 691 01:07:33,467 --> 01:07:36,511 But if you don't sit still I won't take the picture. 692 01:07:36,970 --> 01:07:39,639 And when I say 'Stop!' Nobody moves! 693 01:07:40,057 --> 01:07:43,060 Come on! Quickly! 694 01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:47,605 Come on, lose the hat! 695 01:07:48,023 --> 01:07:50,025 Hey, wake up! 696 01:07:52,527 --> 01:07:55,863 Refugio, pick your hair! You can't see your face! 697 01:07:55,989 --> 01:08:00,410 Riddle me this, which fowl eats at the farm? 698 01:08:01,078 --> 01:08:02,537 The hen! 699 01:08:05,165 --> 01:08:06,791 Come on! Everyone be quiet! 700 01:08:13,131 --> 01:08:15,466 Years later, in Madrid, the priest that instigated the scandal 701 01:08:15,550 --> 01:08:19,428 appeared on the set of That Obscure Object of Desire 702 01:08:19,513 --> 01:08:23,350 with his criticism. 703 01:08:23,767 --> 01:08:27,020 He told the actor Fernando Rey that he wanted to apologise. 704 01:08:27,395 --> 01:08:30,356 The actor expelled him without a second thought. 705 01:08:30,816 --> 01:08:34,653 The ban ended the Spanish producer of Viridiana. 706 01:08:38,824 --> 01:08:40,283 Don't you move! 707 01:08:50,377 --> 01:08:52,962 The priest is armed with a revolver, 708 01:08:53,046 --> 01:08:57,967 and this results in a disturbing scene, filled with black humour. 709 01:08:58,426 --> 01:09:00,052 He knows well what he does. 710 01:09:00,262 --> 01:09:02,847 You mean to say that God is fine with crimes? 711 01:09:02,931 --> 01:09:04,515 I said no such thing. 712 01:09:04,599 --> 01:09:06,851 You should condemn violence from the pulpit. 713 01:09:06,935 --> 01:09:09,020 And I do, son, I do! 714 01:09:09,563 --> 01:09:11,648 But I can't tell my church-goers to let themselves be killed 715 01:09:11,731 --> 01:09:13,190 without fighting back. 716 01:09:13,275 --> 01:09:14,317 You're right. 717 01:09:14,401 --> 01:09:16,236 And you're overreacting. 718 01:09:16,611 --> 01:09:17,445 I'm overreacting? 719 01:09:18,780 --> 01:09:22,784 When even the poorest spend every penny they have to but guns? 720 01:09:23,285 --> 01:09:24,577 Everyone is armed! 721 01:09:25,704 --> 01:09:29,916 I'm sure that the only two people in this town that aren't are you and me. 722 01:09:30,375 --> 01:09:31,376 Just you, then. 723 01:09:32,085 --> 01:09:33,753 Because I do carry a gun. 724 01:09:33,837 --> 01:09:35,213 And you're the priest… 725 01:09:36,131 --> 01:09:37,382 Wow, father… 726 01:09:37,549 --> 01:09:38,925 You made me laugh without wanting to. 727 01:09:54,024 --> 01:09:58,153 The short play we see being represented looks like a parody, 728 01:09:58,236 --> 01:10:01,322 much like the wooden Christ two women are carrying in the tram, 729 01:10:01,406 --> 01:10:07,286 which the camera maliciously positions underneath a pig's severed head. 730 01:10:08,997 --> 01:10:11,249 Lord of the column… 731 01:10:15,503 --> 01:10:16,504 I'm so afraid… 732 01:10:17,172 --> 01:10:17,964 So am I. 733 01:10:18,048 --> 01:10:21,676 This is why I told you to unveil with caution the holy Christ. 734 01:10:22,344 --> 01:10:24,763 Maybe that'd make them fear God. 735 01:10:25,096 --> 01:10:27,556 And them not wanting money rubs me the wrong way. 736 01:10:27,933 --> 01:10:30,977 Nobody gives anything for free nowadays. 737 01:10:31,311 --> 01:10:32,395 And this late! 738 01:10:33,063 --> 01:10:35,857 Who knows if they intend to take us to one of those places… 739 01:10:36,191 --> 01:10:36,900 And there… 740 01:10:37,442 --> 01:10:38,776 May God help us. 741 01:10:38,902 --> 01:10:41,362 The Virgin is part of their lives. 742 01:10:41,655 --> 01:10:43,406 She is with them at work. 743 01:10:43,865 --> 01:10:47,451 I feared that showing that could be considered disrespectful. 744 01:10:47,744 --> 01:10:49,579 But here in Mexico, no one complained. 745 01:10:49,871 --> 01:10:53,291 Hey, someone lend me a hand! 746 01:10:53,375 --> 01:10:56,419 What's this? So big and so… 747 01:10:56,503 --> 01:10:58,463 Oh! He can't even handle this! 748 01:10:58,546 --> 01:11:00,673 I don't need your help! 749 01:11:01,007 --> 01:11:04,260 Look at him! He's already trembling! Give it up, brute! 750 01:11:04,344 --> 01:11:06,596 He can't even keep his underwear up! 751 01:11:15,730 --> 01:11:20,192 The main character drinks dirty water with blood from her own injury, 752 01:11:20,443 --> 01:11:23,904 and she is reminiscent, with her hand over her chest, of Mary Magdalene 753 01:11:23,989 --> 01:11:25,699 the penitent. 754 01:11:25,949 --> 01:11:27,617 Also a prostitute, just like her. 755 01:11:28,827 --> 01:11:29,702 Tell me… 756 01:11:30,370 --> 01:11:33,164 Why are mice, that are so tiny, are so smart? 757 01:11:33,581 --> 01:11:35,874 And cows, being so big, are so dumb? 758 01:11:36,668 --> 01:11:37,627 And something else! 759 01:11:38,211 --> 01:11:41,964 How come giving cents to priests help souls get out of Purgatory? 760 01:11:43,049 --> 01:11:44,425 Come on, tell me. 761 01:11:45,176 --> 01:11:47,553 There's so much confusion within you, my child. 762 01:11:48,179 --> 01:11:49,305 So much superstition. 763 01:11:50,181 --> 01:11:53,726 A wide variety of animals inhabit Buñuel's films, 764 01:11:54,060 --> 01:11:57,104 reflecting our perplexity when it comes to life, 765 01:11:57,355 --> 01:11:59,899 our desires and our fears. 766 01:12:12,537 --> 01:12:16,874 Jean Epstein, who was Buñuel's master, wrote: 767 01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:19,877 "The isolation that all close-ups cause, 768 01:12:20,253 --> 01:12:23,130 produces some kind of surrealistic object". 769 01:12:23,673 --> 01:12:30,971 Buñuel also uses close-ups to cause distress in the mind of his audience. 770 01:12:39,814 --> 01:12:41,941 I'm sure I must seem like a monster to you. 771 01:12:42,317 --> 01:12:43,067 No, uncle. 772 01:12:43,735 --> 01:12:45,528 But it's a shame life is like this. 773 01:12:45,779 --> 01:12:48,490 Poor thing! She was going to drown. 774 01:12:49,199 --> 01:12:51,618 I have as many rights as if I were a viper. 775 01:12:52,452 --> 01:12:53,494 Or that spider! 776 01:12:59,501 --> 01:13:02,879 To me, insects are life's mystery. 777 01:13:03,505 --> 01:13:04,923 The unfathomable. 778 01:13:05,548 --> 01:13:06,966 That which goes beyond… 779 01:13:19,729 --> 01:13:25,192 But you have a lot of money, give some to the baby. 780 01:13:28,363 --> 01:13:29,447 So cute! 781 01:13:30,698 --> 01:13:31,115 Here… 782 01:13:31,783 --> 01:13:32,366 For the two of you. 783 01:13:37,497 --> 01:13:41,125 Freedom's paradoxes and their ghosts. 784 01:13:42,168 --> 01:13:45,796 Ultimately, I've always pitched man against men. 785 01:13:46,297 --> 01:13:49,591 I admire the man that remains faithful to his conscience, 786 01:13:49,676 --> 01:13:51,636 to anything inspired by it. 787 01:13:55,181 --> 01:13:58,934 Freedom is a ghost, long and hard I've thought about this, 788 01:13:59,102 --> 01:14:00,686 and I've always believed in this. 789 01:14:00,812 --> 01:14:02,438 It is a mist-made ghost. 790 01:14:02,522 --> 01:14:05,233 Man chases it, he believes to have captured it, 791 01:14:05,316 --> 01:14:09,820 but all he ends up with is with some mist in his hands. 792 01:14:11,489 --> 01:14:18,078 I can always prove that my thoughts and my will are not mine to command, 793 01:14:18,913 --> 01:14:21,373 and that my freedom is naught but a ghost. 794 01:14:22,750 --> 01:14:24,877 Freedom… oh freedom, what are they trying to say? 795 01:14:32,635 --> 01:14:36,013 The day before yesterday we went to the opera to see 'Tristán and Isolda' 796 01:14:36,097 --> 01:14:36,806 Was it good? 797 01:14:36,890 --> 01:14:37,724 Admirable! 798 01:14:37,807 --> 01:14:40,726 The soprano was superb! 799 01:14:40,810 --> 01:14:43,145 What a voice! What a presence! 800 01:14:43,480 --> 01:14:44,731 A shame she is so fat… 801 01:14:47,233 --> 01:14:52,529 If you want to keep your beloved one from leaving you for a dumb rich man, 802 01:14:52,947 --> 01:14:54,907 play the national lottery! 803 01:14:54,991 --> 01:14:58,244 The national lottery guarantees the woman's fidelity. 804 01:14:58,328 --> 01:15:01,039 Wives must obey their husbands! 805 01:15:01,998 --> 01:15:05,960 Devil's Ham! Buy it at 'La Perfecta'! 806 01:15:09,088 --> 01:15:10,339 This man is drunk! 807 01:15:10,423 --> 01:15:12,007 And you should shave! 808 01:15:12,217 --> 01:15:13,676 Come, dear. What are you waiting for? 809 01:15:13,968 --> 01:15:17,888 - Go with the boy of the Devil's Ham! - Yes, dad! 810 01:15:18,431 --> 01:15:20,891 No, Mateo! It can't be, don't leave! 811 01:15:21,059 --> 01:15:22,977 You must listen to me! 812 01:15:23,686 --> 01:15:25,062 Mateo you can't leave like this! 813 01:15:35,657 --> 01:15:36,741 Are you afraid? 814 01:15:37,534 --> 01:15:38,701 Thunder scares me. 815 01:15:39,202 --> 01:15:40,995 It won't be God the one to protect us, huh? 816 01:15:41,412 --> 01:15:42,704 And how would you know? 817 01:15:44,165 --> 01:15:45,082 Do you believe in God? 818 01:15:45,792 --> 01:15:47,168 Of course I do. 819 01:15:48,419 --> 01:15:49,503 Watch this then. 820 01:15:54,425 --> 01:15:55,342 Where are you going? 821 01:15:58,596 --> 01:15:59,972 Hey, you hear me?! 822 01:16:00,974 --> 01:16:02,767 Prove that you exist! 823 01:16:03,226 --> 01:16:05,853 I wish he'd throw something at your face! 824 01:16:06,187 --> 01:16:08,564 One! Two! And three! 825 01:16:13,236 --> 01:16:14,070 You see? 826 01:16:23,788 --> 01:16:25,331 That almost fell on top of me! 827 01:16:26,958 --> 01:16:29,877 I'm drawn towards characters with fixed ideas. 828 01:16:30,295 --> 01:16:32,463 Because I am like that myself. 829 01:16:32,922 --> 01:16:34,715 As you must've already noticed. 830 01:16:35,508 --> 01:16:36,884 There you have your people. 831 01:16:37,552 --> 01:16:39,512 From here you can see clearly what they are. 832 01:16:40,513 --> 01:16:42,473 Worms crawling around the floor. 833 01:16:43,141 --> 01:16:44,892 One just wants to squash them with your foot. 834 01:16:45,476 --> 01:16:47,060 How can you say that, Francisco! 835 01:16:47,353 --> 01:16:48,479 That's pure selfishness! 836 01:16:48,730 --> 01:16:49,439 So what? 837 01:16:50,064 --> 01:16:52,024 Selfishness is the essence of a noble soul. 838 01:16:52,567 --> 01:16:54,569 I despise men, you hear me? 839 01:16:54,736 --> 01:16:57,155 If I were God I'd never forgive them! 840 01:17:10,793 --> 01:17:12,920 - Gloria - What? 841 01:17:13,921 --> 01:17:15,839 Do you realise that we're alone? 842 01:17:16,883 --> 01:17:18,968 that no one could stop me from punishing you 843 01:17:20,637 --> 01:17:22,722 What would you say if I grabbed you by the neck? 844 01:17:24,432 --> 01:17:27,143 And I, in His name, forgive you for your sins. 845 01:17:28,519 --> 01:17:31,980 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit… 846 01:17:34,192 --> 01:17:35,610 Amen. 847 01:17:39,322 --> 01:17:40,614 Peace be with you. 848 01:18:14,357 --> 01:18:14,857 Aim! 849 01:18:14,941 --> 01:18:18,736 Imagination is the only place where humans are free. 850 01:18:19,278 --> 01:18:19,736 Fire! 851 01:18:23,032 --> 01:18:23,782 What was that? 852 01:18:24,409 --> 01:18:25,618 Maybe a hunter? 853 01:18:26,994 --> 01:18:27,869 It's very odd… 854 01:18:28,413 --> 01:18:30,289 I pictured the Pope being executed. 855 01:18:30,665 --> 01:18:31,165 What?! 856 01:18:32,083 --> 01:18:34,460 You can picture anything you want… 857 01:18:35,211 --> 01:18:37,838 But the Pope being executed will never happen. 858 01:18:38,464 --> 01:18:40,048 André Breton wrote: 859 01:18:40,550 --> 01:18:44,637 "The simplest surrealist action is to go to the streets, armed with a gun, 860 01:18:44,721 --> 01:18:48,474 and start to shoot at random against the masses." 861 01:19:19,172 --> 01:19:24,177 Buñuel, like a baroque painter, reminds us of life's vanity, 862 01:19:24,343 --> 01:19:27,846 and he places religion on the frontier with death. 863 01:19:32,143 --> 01:19:35,479 The fact that he is sniffing a flower has no meaning, 864 01:19:36,272 --> 01:19:39,900 or maybe it did once, but I can't recall it anymore. 865 01:19:40,234 --> 01:19:42,569 But, must everything have a meaning? 866 01:19:43,571 --> 01:19:44,530 But who are you? 867 01:19:47,658 --> 01:19:48,367 A worker… 868 01:19:50,453 --> 01:19:51,662 who never rests… 869 01:19:53,039 --> 01:19:54,749 There's millions and more of us there. 870 01:19:55,124 --> 01:19:55,707 Where? 871 01:20:05,885 --> 01:20:08,429 There, tears are useless… 872 01:20:08,846 --> 01:20:12,015 There, regrets are wasted… 873 01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:13,976 There, tears are useless. 874 01:20:15,853 --> 01:20:17,646 And regrets there, are wasted. 875 01:20:18,189 --> 01:20:20,316 Prayers there aren't heard. 876 01:20:21,108 --> 01:20:24,027 Promises for the future aren't allowed there. 877 01:20:24,445 --> 01:20:25,988 Prayers are not listened there. 878 01:20:27,031 --> 01:20:29,616 And promises… are rejected in the future. 879 01:20:30,201 --> 01:20:35,831 Because, once life's final Mument is over, 880 01:20:37,124 --> 01:20:38,333 Because… 881 01:20:38,543 --> 01:20:40,670 Once life's last instant passes… 882 01:20:41,587 --> 01:20:43,046 there is no time left for penance. 883 01:20:43,881 --> 01:20:46,300 Ambiguity is consubstantial to me 884 01:20:46,634 --> 01:20:48,427 because it challenges fixed ideas, 885 01:20:48,553 --> 01:20:49,679 the immutable ones. 886 01:20:50,513 --> 01:20:52,014 Where is the truth? 887 01:20:54,976 --> 01:20:57,937 Mr. Luis affirmed with pessimism: 888 01:20:58,271 --> 01:21:01,065 Us surrealists wanted to change the world, 889 01:21:01,816 --> 01:21:05,152 but we ended up only changing the vitrines 890 01:21:05,236 --> 01:21:06,612 of fashion stores. 891 01:21:16,747 --> 01:21:18,915 That image sums up the plague, 892 01:21:19,584 --> 01:21:22,545 Such a scene cannot be anticipated in the script. 893 01:21:23,754 --> 01:21:26,465 I find myself filming on a lonely street, 894 01:21:26,549 --> 01:21:27,550 almost in ruins. 895 01:21:27,675 --> 01:21:30,386 Suddenly, an image comes to my mind: 896 01:21:30,469 --> 01:21:33,597 a little girl that walks forward dragging a sheet behind her. 897 01:21:33,681 --> 01:21:35,641 Thus, I have an irrational image, 898 01:21:36,267 --> 01:21:37,726 and yet it sums up tragedy. 899 01:22:08,382 --> 01:22:11,259 Whenever I panic due to the demographic explosion, 900 01:22:11,344 --> 01:22:14,263 I picture myself summoning a dozen biologists, 901 01:22:14,805 --> 01:22:20,060 and I give them the final command to unleash upon the planet a scary virus 902 01:22:20,144 --> 01:22:23,021 that would rid it from two billion of its inhabitants. 903 01:22:23,606 --> 01:22:24,940 And of course, I start by saying courageously: 904 01:22:25,358 --> 01:22:30,613 'Even if that virus ends up attacking me.' 905 01:22:30,988 --> 01:22:34,533 Afterwards, in secret, I attempt to pass the buck, 906 01:22:34,617 --> 01:22:37,578 I make a list of people that have to be saved: 907 01:22:37,662 --> 01:22:43,542 some family members, my best friends, the families of my friend's friends… 908 01:22:43,626 --> 01:22:45,669 I start… and I can't finish. 909 01:22:45,753 --> 01:22:46,754 I quit. 910 01:23:03,062 --> 01:23:06,482 With my films, my intention is to disturb 911 01:23:06,732 --> 01:23:08,775 to infringe the rules of conformism 912 01:23:09,193 --> 01:23:13,030 to make people believe that they don't live in the best of worlds. 913 01:24:27,897 --> 01:24:31,150 I'm the most surrealist I've ever been. 914 01:24:31,859 --> 01:24:36,238 After Un Chien Andalou the world has evolved into the absurd.