21º Mostra Internacional de Cinema International Perspective
A MEXICAN BUÑUEL

France / Mexico   

A Mexican BuñuelDocumentary on the productive passage of Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel through Mexico having been fired in 1946 from Warner Brothers where he supervised the versions in Spanish of the great studio productions.

In Mexico City, he met French producer Oscar Dancingers with whom he made Gran Casino, his first in the country, where he remained until 1965 and where he made some 20 films.

This documentary presents a side that is little known of the director of films such as A Bela da Tarde, O Discreto Charme da Burguesia, Esse Obscuro Objeto de Desejo, and Fantasma da Liberdade, with a view into the wings of film sets from the Mexican phase of his career. It also shows the second ending for the film Os Esquecidos, up to recently unknown to the public.
 

     Director

DIRECTOR: Emilio Maille
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Emilio Maille, Xavier Perez Grobet, Jean Michel Humeau, Damien Morisot.
EDITION: Octavio Iturbe
CAST: O documentário conta com a participação de Luis Buñuel, Jeanne Buñuel, Denise Tual, Carlos Fuentes, Luiz Alcoriza, Carlos Savage, Manuel Barbachano, Padre Julian Pablo Fernandez, Roberto Cobo, Silvia Pinal, Ernesto Alonso, Pilar Pellicer, Kary Jurado, Arturo Saenz de la Calzada, Marinao Abud
PRODUCER: Emilio Maille e Alain Pancrazi
FESTIVALS: Locarno
PRODUCTION: Rumba Productions—PM Audivisuel, Cine Cinefil, Centre Georges Pompidou, FONCA
ORIGINAL TITLE: A Mexican Buñuel
   ----, 56 min. 1997

Emilio Maille

Born in Mexico City in 1963. He has lived in Paris since 1980 where he was assistant director and producer. The first documentary he directed -The Arruzza Years - won the Golden Fipa and was shown in diverse film festivals the world over. He has just made a documentary Manolette, about the famous Spanish toreador.