

“Yet around her things were living so violently sometimes. The sun was fire, the earth solid and possible, plants were sprouting alive, trembling, whimsical, houses were made so that in them bodies could be sheltered, arms would wrap around waists, for every being and for every thing there was another being and another thing in a union that was a burning end with nothing beyond.”
― The Chandelier
― The Chandelier
“The alternation of despair and resignation with the quest for knowledge and self-preservation is one example of what Durgnat terms the dialectics of Buñuel's cinema, ‘in that every character, every event, is not an assertion of any one point, but is a synthesis between opposing polarities.”
― A Search for Belonging: The Mexican Cinema of Luis Buñuel
― A Search for Belonging: The Mexican Cinema of Luis Buñuel
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