2019 · animation · drama · history
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Directed by Salvador Simó1h 22m2019
Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.
Our read: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2019) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive animation · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured animation / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- inventive
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