Thursday 29 August 2013

P Is For...The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

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Dir. Luis Buñuel

It took many years for me to finally appreciate Buñuel as a film director, but I wouldn't have been surprised if I liked this film back when I thought he was overrated. It may have helped me love his films a lot more earlier. This and his autobiography My Last Breath would have helped me admire his craft immensely. In terms of my favorite of the director's, The Milky Way (1969) is his best for me so far, but this is just behind it. It does reach back the furthest to his origins in the Surrealistic art movement; research his past especially a project involving a giraffe and it makes a lot of the moments in this, including his obsession with strange bird life, even more significant. Its absurdity and sketch-like nature does make it an interesting film in his filmography in that it can both be seen as a very accessible movie and yet still difficult because Buñuel's sense of sketch comedy is completely dry and acidic. 


Review Link - http://www.videotapeswapshop.co.uk/15354/p-is-for-the-phantom-of-liberty-1974-director-luis-bunuel/


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