The Exterminating AngelThe Exterminating Angel (opera)
Trapped at dinner, now in song
Thomas Adès turned Buñuel's film into an opera. It opened at the Salzburg Festival in 2016 and went on to Covent Garden and the Met.
Mexican cinema
The film industry of Mexico, where Luis Buñuel made about twenty films after settling there in 1946.
Mexico had one of the largest film industries in the Spanish-speaking world, and its golden age ran from the 1930s into the 1950s. Buñuel worked inside that commercial system and slipped his own obsessions into melodramas and comedies.
Los Olvidados, his 1950 film about street children in Mexico City, won him the best director prize at Cannes and restored his reputation. The Exterminating Angel, made in Mexico in 1962, is pure Surrealism at feature length.
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