Luis Buñuel art form screened at Campo Alegre this September

Theatre Campo Alegre features the "25XBuñuel" Cycle, from 2 to 12 September.
This cinema cycle is devoted to the artistic legacy of Luís Buñuel. Medeia Filmes and Leopardo Filmes organised the most relevant recap of the outstanding filmography by the Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. 

Buñuel directed 32 films, 25 of which will be screened at Campo Alegre. Audiences will be able to appreciate Buñuel's first film "Un Chien Andalou", which was produced in the silent film era, and considered by critic Roger Ebert "the most famous short film ever made, will be screened in Porto on 11 July till the end of the month at Theatre Campo Alegre. The cycle also includes films as "Age of Gold" and "Las Hurdes".

Buñuel filmography was often considered subversive and was often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s. The director attended the University of Madrid, where he developed a very close relationship with painter Salvador Dalí and poet Federico García Lorca in 1917. They formed the nucleus of the Spanish Surrealist avant-garde Movement.

His artistic career was extensive, from the 1920s through the 1970s, and spanned two continents, three languages, and multiple genres, namely experimental film, documentary, melodrama, satire, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western.

His Jesuit schooling led him to saying that "I'm an atheist, thank God", and in many of his films he would resort to religious iconography but in a wicked form. His last film, which he produced 48 years later, "That Obscure Object of Desire", won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.

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