produced in conjunction with
the Mexican Embassy, the Instituto Cervantes in Rome, the French Embassy
“Give me two hours of waking, active life and twenty-two hours of dreaming, but only on condition that I'm allowed to remember my dreams”. One of the greatest movie directors of all time is the subject of our full retrospective, held to mark the 110th anniversary of his birth. His cinema is still a sharp tool today for defining individual freedom, venting the strongest and deepest emotions that the rational world simply can't handle but that are given free rein in the dimension of dreams. The master's entire output is either based on, or acts on, the dimension of dreams, from his spectacular early days in a surrealist environment, to his splendid Mexican works, and right up to the masterpieces of his final years. An antagonist par excellence, Buñuel fought against every kind of oppression, pillorying the faulty fundamentals of human coexistence, from education to religion and from power to social rituals. The supremacy of instinct and a clear outlook on man's material and moral wretchedness are the constants in his narrative career, translating into a free and innovative style where the action fluctuates in an extremely broad mental space, following the frenzied folds of human neuroses. Echoing the suspended atmospheres of the Giorgio de Chirico exhibition, this retrospective offers an unparalleled exploration of reality triggered by astonishment itself faced with its unsolvable enigma.
Our thanks go to: Filmoteca de la UNAM, Televisa, Filmoteca del MAE, Centre Pompidou Paris Musée national d’art moderne / Centre de création industrielle, Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale, Cineteca di Bologna, Cineteca D. W. Griffith, Federazione Italiana dei Circoli del Cinema, Gruppo Editoriale Minerva RaroVideo
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Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Sala Cinema
entry via the stairs in via Milano 9A, Roma
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