Films byTexts by Luis Buñuel
FILM
Luis Buñuel, 1950, 81’

Los olvidados
petites plantes errantes
des faubourgs de Mexico-City
prématurément arrachées
au ventre de leur mère
au ventre de la terre
et de la misère
Los olvidados
enfants trop tôt adolescents
enfants oubliés
relégués
pas souhaités

FILM
Luis Buñuel, 1961, 90’

After years in Mexican exile, Buñuel returned to his native Spain to make this dark account of corruption, which was immediately banned. A young nun, full of charity, kindness, and idealistic illusions about humanity, visits her uncle and tries to help some local peasants and beggars.

FILM
Luis Buñuel, 1964, 97’

Hired as a maid by a rich family in Normandy, Celestine is forced to undergo the unpleasant habits of her insufferable hosts. Their obsessions and perversions lay bare the right-wing, fascist worldview of the provincial bourgeoisie in 1920s France.