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Engaging tribute to master of provocative film-making
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a new take on the great Spanish film-maker Luis Bunuel

Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
by Fermin Solis
(SelfMadeHero, £14.99)
LUIS BUNUEL made his first film just before the 1929 Wall Street Crash and retired from the director’s chair soon after the advent of the home computer.
His half century of creative provocation began with the grotesque surrealism of Un Chien Andalou (1929), an avant-garde classic of the silent era, and closed with a series of late flourishes: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).
These are cinematic masterpieces – humorous, poetic and more overtly political than his early work.
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