Juan Luis Buñuel

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Juan Luis Buñuel (born November 9, 1934 in Paris ; † December 6, 2017 there ) was a French film and television director . He also worked as a screenwriter and actor . Later he tried himself as a sculptor.

biography

The son of the famous director Luis Buñuel grew up in the USA and Mexico . He started his film work in 1959 as his father's assistant director in his film drama For him I sell myself , which was followed in 1960 by the thriller The Young Girl and in 1961 by the socially critical film about the novice Viridiana von Buñuel. He also worked with his father in 1964 in the literary film Diary of a Chambermaid with Jeanne Moreau in the title role and in 1977 in the film drama This Obscure Object of Desire .

Buñuel assisted Louis Malle in 1965 on his western comedy Viva Maria! and in 1967 in the adventure film The Thief of Paris . He also worked as an assistant director for Orson Welles on his unfinished Don Quixote project .

After directing two short films, Buñuel made his feature film debut with the haunted film Rendezvous for the Happy Death (1973). With two of his father's favorite stars, Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey , he shot the mystery film The Woman in Red Boots a year later . In 1975 Michel Piccoli and Liv Ullmann were the stars of his fantasy film Eleonore . Buñuel then devoted himself to television and in 1980 shot the four-part miniseries about Fantômas , in which he shared the direction with Claude Chabrol . He then worked as a television director in France and Mexico. In 1986 he shot another movie with the western La rebelión de los colgados . For the episode Adriana of the French television series Haute Tension , he took over the direction in 1991 and also wrote the script. He last worked as a director in 1996 for the television adventure film Barrage sur l'Orénoque . His last listed work was in 1997 for the documentary Les paradoxes de Buñuel , for which he wrote the screenplay.

Juan Luis Buñuel was married until 1976 to the director and writer Joyce Buñuel, née Sherman, with whom he had three children.

Filmography (selection)

if no other information, as a director

  • 1959: I sell myself for him (VerwT: The fever is rising in El Pao , La fièvre monte à El Pao ) (assistant director)
  • 1960: The young girl ( The Young One , assistant director)
  • 1961: Viridiana (assistant director)
  • 1961: Guantes de oro (actor)
  • 1964: Secret agent in Gibraltar (Gibraltar) (assistant director)
  • 1964: Diary of a maid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) (assistant director)
  • 1965: Viva Maria! (Assistant director)
  • 1966: Le potier
  • 1967: Calanda
  • 1967: The Thief of Paris (Le Voleur) (assistant director)
  • 1969: Plan Chontalpbha (documentary short film) (producer)
  • 1972: Greetings from the kidnappers (L'aventure, c'est l'aventure) (Actor)
  • 1972: Rendezvous for a happy death (Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse)
  • 1974: The woman in red boots (La femme aux bottes rouges)
  • 1975: Eleanor
  • 1977: This obscure object of desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) (assistant director)
  • 1980: Fantômas (four-part miniseries)
  • 1986: La rebelión de los colgados
  • 1990: Henry & June (actors)
  • 1991: Haute tension (TV series, episode Adriana ) (director and screenplay)
  • 1996: Barrage sur l'Orénoque (TV movie)
  • 1997: Les paradoxes de Buñuel (documentary) (screenplay)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Björn Eichstädt in conversation with Juan Luis Buñuel adS dasmanifest.com
  2. ↑ Juan Luis Buñuel and his wife Joyce adS gettyimages.de
personal data
SURNAME Buñuel, Juan Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bunuel, Jean-Louis; Buñuel, Juan Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2017
Place of death Paris