Le dimenticanze di un figlio della violenza: storia, surrealismo ed esilio nel Buñuel messicano

Abstract

Le dimenticanze di un figlio della violenza: storia, surrealismo ed esilio nel Buñuel messicano

Luis Buñuel, the most famous Spanish director, can be considered as a marginal film-maker and a Mexican one? Despite of his fame as an author, yes. During the whole period of his Mexican exile, Buñuel carefully removed history and historicity from his works and memory. His autorship and his activity as a professional film-maker evolved together through the choice of avoiding direct references of any sort to the recent past represented by the memory of the Spanish Civil War and of the surrealistic movement. This underlined lack of historicity is nothing but a sophisticated illusion, because, despite of himself, Buñuel introduced in his works many symbols and metaphorical elements collidingly connected to his own experiences as a refugee.