Buñuel

American  

[boon-wel, boo-nywel] / bunˈwɛl, buˈnjwɛl /

noun

1. Luis 1900–83, Spanish film director.

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Buñuel British  

/ buˈɲwel /

noun

1. Luis (lwis). 1900–83, Spanish film director. He collaborated with Salvador Dali on the first surrealist films, Un Chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1930). His later films include Viridiana (1961), Belle de jour (1966), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

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Example Sentences

Fluent in posturing and hypocrisy, Ulman looks like an influencer and thinks like Luis Buñuel.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

Pierce attributes some of the piece’s structural irregularities to the Buñuel films.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023

This historic cubist space in the south of France, once graced by luminaries like Buñuel, Man Ray, Dali —and also Karl Lagerfeld — has for more than a century been a beacon for art.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2023

The musical, now titled “Here We Are,” is inspired by two Buñuel films, “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” and “The Exterminating Angel.”

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

Buñuel, a master of surreal imagery who aimed his mordantly irreverent plots at bourgeois values, mostly worked in exile.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023