Buñuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles

[Plays Oct. 4 at the MSP Film Society at the St. Anthony on Main Theater; for information, log on to info@mspfilm.org or call 612/331-7563.]
After broke, down-on-his-luck, avante-garde, Spanish director Luis Buñuel (voiceover by Jorge Usón) has a rift with filmmaker Salvador Dali in Salvador Simó's imaginative, factually inspired, engaging, unique, thought-provoking, humor-sprinkled, colorful, violence-dotted, surrealistic, 80-minute, 2018 animated film highlighted by creative and striking animation, punctuated by graphic live-action snippets of his black-and-white documentary, and based on Fermín Solís's graphic novel, he collaborates with poet/sculptor/friend lottery-winning Ramón Acín Aquilué (voiceover by Fernando Ramos), French cinematographer Eli Lotar (voiceover by Cyril Corral), and writer Pierre Unik (voiceover by Luis Enrique de Tomás) in 1933 to direct his surreal film Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (aka Land without Bread) that showcases the making of the 28-minute documentary about the poverty-stricken residents of Las Hurdes against the backdrop of the horrors of Franco's Spain.
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