Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
(Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas)
Year: 2018
Country:
SPAIN
Language:
Spanish
Run Time:
77 minutes
After screening his latest film, “L’Age D’Or,” surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel is roundly condemned for blasphemy. The church, his friends, and even his own mother ostracize him, and he cannot get funding to do further work. After reading an ethnography about the impoverished Las Hurdes region in Spain, Buñuel enlists the help of friends to fund and film a documentary about the region, ostensibly to stop the suffering there and reclaim his artistic reputation. But Buñuel has odd ideas about reality, and his supposedly humanitarian documentary is becoming something darker and personal. Told beautifully in animation, with film from the actual documentary, BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES is a rare and unusual meditation on the nature of art and the torment of the artist. The decision to animate this disturbing story for adults is a thoughtful one, lending an air of appropriate surrealism to a very real look at a difficult man transgressing the lines between what is true and what art wants to make true. (In Spanish with subtitles) —C.R.
CIFF43 Screenings
Tuesday, April 02, 2019 at 8:25 PM
Cleveland Museum of Art - Lecture Hall
Friday, April 05, 2019 at 6:30 PM
- This screening is on Stand By.
Sidebars
Cinema en Español
Film Is Art
Competition
International Narrative Competition
Director
Salvador Simó
Salvador Simó is a director and visual effects artist. He worked in the animation department for short films, and TV movies and series before pursuing directing feature films.
Filmography
Paddle Pop Adventures 2: Journey Into the Kingdom (2012), BUNUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES (2018)
Producers
Manuel Cristóbal, Bruno Felix, Jose Maria Fernandez De Vega, Femke Wolting
Screenwriting
Salvador Simó, Eligio R. Montero
Cinematography
Jose Manuel Piñero
Editing
José Manuel Jiménez
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