Cinemateca Itália, in Porto Alegre, presents the Buñuel exhibition in Mexico between November 28th and December 8th. Ten films from Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s Mexican phase will be shown.
The opening session, next Tuesday (28), at 7:30 pm, shows one of Luis Buñuel’s greatest masterpieces, The Exterminating Angel, with a presentation by film critic Marcus Mello.
The program also highlights other notable works in the history of cinema, such as Os Esquecidos, Nazarín, Simão do Deserto and O Alucinado, with a section that ranges between stories of a social nature and openly surrealist narratives.
Mexico
One of the great creators of the cinematic avant-garde of the silent period, Buñuel went into exile from Spain during the Civil War (1936-39). From the 1940s onwards, he lived in Mexico, where he began the most productive phase of his cinematic career. “Between 1946 and 1964, from Gran Casino to Simón del Desierto, he made 20 films in Mexico (out of a total of 32). With the exception of Robinson Crusoe and The Young One, all of these films were shot in Spanish with Mexican actors and technicians,” declared the filmmaker.
With support from Versátil Filmes, the program has free entry.
Show Buñuel in Mexico
When: 11/28 (Tuesday) to 12/08/2023 (Friday)
Where: Cinematheque Capitol (Rua Demétrio Ribeiro, 1,085 – Historic Center of Porto Alegre)
How much: Free entry with tickets distributed 30 minutes before the session
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Luis Buñuel was born on February 23, 1900, in Calanda, Spain, and died on July 29, 1983, in Mexico City, suffering from cirrhosis. In his youth, he attended the University of Madrid, where he met the poet Federico García Lorca and the painter Salvador Dalí, with whom he became great friends. In France, in the 1920s, he became an assistant to director Jean Epstein, who encouraged him to pursue a career as a director.
TIMETABLE
November 28th
7:30 pm – The Exterminating Angel
November 29th
5pm – The Brute
7:30 pm – The Forgotten
30th of November
5pm – Slaves of the Rancor
19h30 – A Adolescente
December 1st
5pm – Nazarin
December 2nd
5pm – Simão do Deserto
December 3rd
5pm – Rehearsal of a Crime
7pm – The Hallucinated
December 5th
17h – A Adolescente
7:30 pm – Slaves of the Rancor
December 6th
5pm – Simão do Deserto
6pm – The Forgotten
7:30 p.m. – Nazarin
December 7th
3pm – Rehearsal of a Crime
5pm – The Brute
7:30 pm – Death in This Garden
December 8th
3pm – The Hallucinated
5pm – The Exterminating Angel
