Luis Buñuel
Paperback | Pages: 268 pages Rating: 4.32 | 2431 Users | 191 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Mon dernier soupir |
| ISBN: | 0816643873 (ISBN13: 9780816643875) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Despite complains of losing his memory in later life, this was an utterly fascinating autobiography from arguably Spain's most important film-maker of the 20th century. Being in his early eighties at the time, and having a hell of a lot to remember, Buñuel is obviously awash with nostalgia, and it's written as if he felt wonderful lives went out with his generation. We move from image to image, just like his films, as he recollects on his childhood in Spain, his involvement with the surrealist movement in Paris, the Spanish Civil War, his time spent in America and Mexico (where he became a citizen), and of course, his films, although, he only really covers a small handful of them in detail. He had quite the friends list too - Garcia Lorca, Picasso, Dali, Magritte, Breton, Eluard to name but a few. He also got to hang out regularly with Charlie Chaplin whilst in America. It surprised me somewhat, that although he was a close friend of Dali, and admired his work greatly, he was scathing of him as a person on more than one occasion in the book, describing him as selfish, narcissistic and totally unreliable. There were others too. He touched on his likes & dislikes equally - he loved fried eggs served with Chorizo, smoking, a dry martini, and was a big fan of Russian literature, Fritz Lang, and the early work of Jean Renoir, but didn't have anything kind to say about Japanese culture, or writers Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Luis Borges. He even said of Dante's Divine Comedy as being useless, and even less poetic than the Bible, but was singing the praises of de Sade. If I'm honest, he did come across as a bit of a big-head at times, in a sort of Vladimir Nabokov way, but, on the other hand, he was also pleasingly unpretentious. My Last Sigh was, on the whole, a tremendous pleasure to read. I now feel like having a Buñuel movie night! - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie followed by Belle de Jour.Describe Epithetical Books My Last Sigh
| Title | : | My Last Sigh |
| Author | : | Luis Buñuel |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 268 pages |
| Published | : | September 16th 2003 by Univ Of Minnesota Press (first published 1982) |
| Categories | : | Culture. Film. Biography |
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Exceptional. Personal histories, awkward anecdotes, cocktail recipes, etc.Whimsical and full of digressions this memoir may not be the choice to make for one looking for a walk through Bunuel's life in film. What Bunuel gives us is a peek into his childhood in Spain, his life in the Surrealist movement, his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, his life in Mexico and Hollywood, and sprinkles in his many personal likes and dislikes, his thoughts on life and death etc. It's as if he wrote it less for the public and more for his descendants; for that great grand
This is a wonderful autobiography of the great film director Luis Bunuel. I have watched several of his films and really enjoyed them. This book covers his life growing up in Spain, his 36 years living in Mexico City where most of his films were made, as well as times he spent in New York, California and Paris. Unfortunately, he died the year after this book was written and published at the age of 83. Anybody who likes his films or just cinema in general, should really enjoy this book.
I wish I could give it 10 stars And another 10 to Bunuel, my spiritual master. I cried on the last page even though I knew the ending (spoiler: he dies at the end.)
Surrealism might seem quaint and old-world and outdated in our wired and up-to-the-second bottom-line universe, but there was a time when artists operated with a code of principles and pursuits as set out in life-and-death manifestos. Thank God Luis Bunueldirector of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire, that creepy, non-narrative movie where they slice open a pig's eye, those gritty depictions of Mexico City's impoverished underside, and the super sexy Belle de
i liked this book far more than i expected to. Bunuel is a story teller. and his autobiography is not a linear report on dates and names and places. instead it is very much a story weaving through time and very personal. like a conversation -where one thing leads to another- associations are made and we don't necessarily end up were we thought we were going to. and that is the joy of it. plus i really relate to how Bunuel sees the world. his chapter entitled Still an Atheist, Thank God! in which
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