Buñuel, a Surrealist Filmmaker

Javier Espada’s follow-up to his 2008 documentary The Last Script: Remembering Buñuel —where Buñuel’s son Juan Luis, and his frequent collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière took audiences on a tour of the countries and cities the filmmaker lived and worked in— was born as a speech he gave as part of an exhibit dedicated to Buñuel in Mexico’s Cinemateca. Produced and edited during the pandemic lockdowns, Espada’s new documentary compiles and restores archives rescued from film libraries, collections and historical funds, including never before seen material such as stereoscopic images shot by Buñuel’s father in Zaragoza and Calanda. Buñuel, a Surrealist Filmmaker is more than an introduction to the director’s influential work and career; it also opens new ways to approach and understand his filmography.