Luis Buñuel

(1900 - 1983)

Born in Calanda, Spain, in 1900, Luis Buñuel entered the University of Madrid at the age of seventeen and soon became friends with Salvador Dalí, with whom he collaborated on his first film, Un Chien Andalou, in 1928. He directed The Golden Age in 1930, The Exterminating Angel in 1962, and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in 1972. In 1982, the year before his death, he wrote, “During the last five years…I’ve begun to complain about my legs, my eyes, my head, my lapses of memory, my weak coordination…The enemy is everywhere, and I’m painfully conscious of my decrepitude. The diagnosis couldn’t be simpler: I’m an old man, and that’s all there is to it.”