Screening Luis Buñuel • An Andalusian Dog & Simon of the Desert x Photo exhibition Montmartre Art and Love
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
19:00
21:00
Luis Buñuel
Evening Cinema at Studio 28:
Travel in surrealism and avant-garde
On Wednesday 3 July 2024, as part of the Montmartre Festival, Studio 28 invites you to a special evening dedicated to Luis Buñuel. This mythical place in Montmartre, in operation since 1928, offers a double screening of films by Luis Buñuel:
An Andalusian dog and Simon of the Desert.
An Andalusian dog celebrates the period when cinema redefined art, while Simon du Désert explores deep themes with a striking aesthetic. These films will make you relive the glorious era of cinema.
Join us from 21:00 for this unique cinematic experience in a place steeped in history.
Practical information:
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 •
Location: Studio 28, 10 Rue Tholozé, 75018 Paris •
Time: 21:00
“I am a man from another time. A time when there was still the feeling of death,” a stone-faced squire told Belle de jour. In his village of Calanda, Luis Buñuel also grew up feeling death. The bells of the churches still sounded the knell to accompany the deceased in the afterlife and the plañideras followed with their sobs the coffins through the alleys. He also saw the priests lift the veil of the corpses to throw a handful of ashes. From the beautiful Spanish widows creped in black in Mexico to the Santa Muerte, this fervent thanatophilia has never been extinguished, unrolling a long series of nocturnal cemeteries, desecrated vaults and especially young dead with unaltered beauty. Luis Buñuel’s surrealism is dark and gothic, drawing on sadistic black novels and decadent literature.
An Andalusian dog - Luis Buñuel
France/ 1928/ 17 min/ DCP
With Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Salvador Dalí.
It was a night to the sound of Argentine tango. A man sharpens his razor near the balcony before slicing the wide open eye of an impassive girl.
Simon of the desert/ Simon del desierto - Luis Buñuel
Mexico/ 1965/ 47 min/ 35mm/ VOSTF
Based on an original subject by Luis Buñuel with Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix.
Simon, the holy hermit, perched on a column in the middle of the desert, blesses and heals the faithful. But Satan, incarnate in a pretty young woman, tries to seduce the ascetic.