Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) was a Spanish-born filmmaker whose works have been renouned for their surrealism, and their criticisms of bourgeois society and religion, specifically the Catholic Church. He made his first film, Un chien andalou, in 1920 with friend and surrealist painter Salvidor Dalí and has created such films as The Golden Age (L'Âge d'or, 1930), Viridiana (1961), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). He was a devoted communist and atheist, at one point was quoted to have said, "Thank God, I'm atheist!" He lived and worked in France, the United States, Mexico and Spain throughout his life.