Luis Buñuel Mother" series, is their grandson. After this apprenticeship, Buñuel shot and directed a 16-minute short, "Un Chien Andalou", with Salvador Dalí. The film, financed by Buñuel's mother, consists of a series of startling images of a Freudian nature, starting with a woman's eyeball being sliced open with a razor blade. "Un Chien Andalou" was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning French surrealist movement of the time and continues to be shown regularly in film societies to this day. The script was written in six days at Dalí's home in Cadaqués. In a letter to a friend written in February 1929, Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France. When Luis Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in "The New York Times" called him "an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later". His first picture, "Un Chien Andalou"—made in the silent era—was called "the most famous short film ever made" by critic Roger Ebert, and his last film, "That Obscure Object of Desire"—made 48 years later—won him