Benito Pérez Buñuel

Benito Pérez Buñuel is a feature-length documentary whose protagonists are two great creators, the writer Benito Pérez Galdós and the filmmaker Luis Buñuel.

The basis of this film is the phrase that Luis Buñuel spoke to his friend Max Aub in 1969 when he asked him about his most important influences. Buñuel responded: “Galdós's is the only influence that I would recognize, in general, on me.”

Three films come together in Benito Pérez Buñuel. That of Benito Pérez Galdós, continuer of the great Spanish cultural tradition (Cervantes, El Lazarillo, Quevedo, Lope de Vega, Velázquez, Goya), universal realist writer on a par with his Russian, French and British contemporaries, but not as recognized as these. That of Luis Buñuel, one of the main filmmakers of the 20th century, who continued the path of the previous ones through the main artistic expression of his century, cinema. And finally, the film that links the previous ones: that of the director, a filmmaker in his fifties, who reflects on the two great creators in the process of constructing this film.