Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón (2001)

Director:

Carlos Saura

Writers:

Carlos Saura (screenplay) &
Agustín Sánchez Vidal (screenplay)

Release Date:

9 November 2001 (Spain)

Genre:

Adventure | Fantasy

Plot:

Toledo in the 30s: The godfather of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Loca...

Plot Keywords:

Surrealism | Female Nudity | Surrealist | Dream Like | King Solomon

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

El Gran Wyoming	...	Luis Buñuel mayor (as Gran Wyoming)
Pere Arquillué	...	Luis Buñuel
Ernesto Alterio	...	Salvador Dalí
Adrià Collado	...	Federico García Lorca
Valeria Marini	...	Ana María de Zayas
Amira Casar	...	Fátima
Jean-Claude Carrière	...	David Goldman
Juan Luis Galiardo	...	Crítico de Cine
Armando De Razza	...	Obispo Abilio Avendaño
Eusebio Lázaro	...	El Judio Errante
Jorge Cañibano	...	Pacheco
Pablo Rivero	...	Espía
Fernando Chinarro	...	Jacinto Baños
Farid Fatmi	...	Moro
Martín Mujica	...	Eremita

Also Known As:

Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (International: English title)

Runtime:

Spain:105 min

Country:

Spain | Mexico | Germany

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Spain:13 | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Company:

Rioja Films Producciones Cinematográficas S.L.

Movie Connections:

References Un chien andalou (1929)

Someone would think that I did´t understand the movie...

Yeah, maybe I´m not so pedant as to feel satisfied with the film. The references to Buñuel´s movies are simply "too easy" to locate, perhaps because Saura is not interested in making people find clues but in making those people know how "cool" he is... Yes, I can recognize "Tristana", or "Viridiana", even "Un chien andalou", and so what. The film is boring. I thought, just before I watched it, then, if I were lucky I would see a mix between "Raiders of the Lost Arc" and "Shakespeare in Love", but I was mistaken. Nothing so great. Just another dull and unhappy attempt to imitate one of the chapters of "The Outer Limits". But not as funny and very much more pretentious. Alterio as Dali? Just awful. Lorca as a sissy afraid of his own poems... just horrible. And I prefer not to talk about the make-up and SFX. The whole movie is a good idea badly made. I was in the premiere, in The San Sebastian Festival, and could see Saura himself introducing the movie to the audience. Well, that morning the critics had been... "no mercy", you know... And I think he was just apologizing. You feel curiosity?... I did. Not worth to lose two hours of your life.