TY - BOOK AU - Salvador Simó AU - Salvador Simó AU - Eligio R. Montero AU - Jorge Usón AU - Fernando Ramos AU - Luis Enrique de Tomás TI - Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles AV - PN1997 .B868 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Spain PB - Sygnatia, The Glow, Submarine N2 - From case cover: Filmmaker Luis Buñuel is left penniless after the scandalous premier of his film L'Age d'Or. However, his good friend, the sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket with the promise that if he wins, he will pay for Buñuel's next film. Incredibly, luck is on their side, so they set out to make the movie, an unconventional documentary about the desperately poor Las Hurdes region in Spain. Buñuel's initially callous approach to the extreme poverty and situations he encounters (or creates) gradually leads to a filmmaking experience that will transform him forever, in this deeply affecting and humanistic portrait of a legendary artist hunting for his purpose ER -