1900-1983
also known as Louis Bunuel
Mexican filmmaker, part of the summer Cinematheque series, however I missed his films.
“Bunuel is the greatest director in the world” – Alfred Hitchcock.
Belle De Jour, Tristana, The young One, Diary of a Chambermaid, Wuthering Heights, et al.
I have seen Belle De Jour. It can be believed that Hitchcock would love this film as the lady in question has a returning flashback image of horse bells jingling that corresponds with her infidelity and discontent. She is a perfect enigma (which Hitchcock would love), but more importantly, a motivated enigma, according to he past and upbringing. Freud would likely have something to say as well about the distinction horses have in the revelation to young persons of the physical form, exaggerated by the size of the animal, of the organs of the sexual apparatus.
I myself found the film perhaps too enigmatic, and too fleeting and ‘deep’ for my tastes. Howeve one cannot help admiring Catherine Deneuve’s white hot and freezing cold oblivion. Just when one begins to think she is really nothing at all – she turns her face, slowly, and one feels a slight flush coming on in admiration of this cool princess.
