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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles review – intriguing animation – The Guardian

A depiction of the making of Luis Buñuel’s documentary Las Hurdes is striking, but casts the director in an unflattering light

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The career of director Luis Buñuel was very nearly over before it had even begun. The failure of his first feature, LAge dOr, a surrealist comedy made with Salvador Dalí, left him penniless and reviled. But then a sympathetic friend, the sculptor Ramón Acín, bought a lottery ticket and promised to fund Buñuels next film if it won. Miraculously, it did. This animation tells of the making of Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread), a documentary portrait of the most miserable place in Spain. Based on a gr…

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