Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles review – animated odyssey

Film-maker Luis Buñuel’s surreal journey to a deprived region of Spain in the 30s is recreated in a gently engaging animationHere is an engaging if somewhat demure animation, bordering occasionally on a kind of gentle sentimentality that is inimical to the subject: it’s about the great director Luis Buñuel, though I suspect it’s more inspired by Pedro Almódovar.Based on a graphic novel by Spanish artist Fermín Solís, this imaginatively reconstructs a great moment in Buñuel’s life. In 1933, as surrealism was considered by many artists an essential riposte to the bourgeois conformity that was enabling fascism, Buñuel boldly began work on a new film, entitled Land Without Bread – a supposed documentary about the desperately poor region of Las Hurdes in western Spain, whose wretchedness was blandly ignored by the central government. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/16/bunuel-in-the-labyrinth-of-the-turtles-review-luis-bunuel-animation #animation_in_film #film #culture #drama_films #biopics #world_cinema #spain #luis_buñuel