Luis Buñuel

Born in Spain in 1900, Luis Buñuel Portolés made his name in the 1920s surrealist movement, collaborating with Salvador Dalí on Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or — two films that became instant avant-garde landmarks. He spent 1947 to 1960 in Mexico directing grounded melodramas like Los Olvidados and Él, honing a craft that would later fuse with his surrealist instincts. The shift came with Viridiana in 1961, a morally knotted critique of the Franco regime that won the Palme d'Or, and continued through The Exterminating Angel and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, the latter taking the Oscar…