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...Luis Bunuel and his Work--Carlos Fuentes; Carpenter Center...
this could have been a bitterly raucous movie, if only the artists involved hadn't confused seriousness with solemnity. For their penance, they should see any Bunuel movie ten times. -By Richard Corliss
Imagine Truffaut's Jules and Jim with Laurel and Hardy in the title roles. Imagine Bunuel's Tristana with a new screenplay by Henry Miller. Imagine-well, what's the point? There really isn't any way to anticipate the special charms of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs. This rhapsodic French comedy about men, women and sex is an honest-to-God original with its own challenging brands of humor, style and wisdom. It is the first revolutionary film to come out of France since the decline of the New Wave in the late...
Altman certainly is not the first director to make films that mock the fraudulent elements of his culture. One thinks immediately, for example, of Luis Bunuel, whose films consistently expose the sham and hypocrisy of latin bourgeois culture. Bunuel's attitude towards his subjects is different from Altman's, however, and the difference says something about the directors themselves, and about the societies that have produced them...
...Bunuel seems to take a perverse delight in pointing up bourgeois foibles; with a hint of a sneer, he rips away the veils of middle-class civilization and urbanity. His knocking down of social myths proceeds largely along the class lines so clearly defined in modern European consciousness. One gets a sense, watching a Bunuel film, that he's not only shattering myths, he's mounting a vaguely Marxist attack on false consciousness...