Spanish and Mexican filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) is widely recognised as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. A daring iconoclast and mischief-maker, Buñuel combined surrealist non sequiturs with taboo-shattering attacks on the bourgeoisie, the church, and social hypocrisy. This resulted in some of the most incendiary films of the twentieth century. He collaborated with Salvador Dalí on the scandalous avant-garde landmark L’âge d’or (1930) and Un Chien Andalou (1929), a seminal work of surrealist cinema.
