{"id":13803,"date":"2020-10-05T23:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2020-10-05T23:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:25:20","slug":"bunuel-in-the-labyrinth-of-the-turtles-2018-salvador-simo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13803","title":{"rendered":"Bu\u00f1uel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018, Salvador Sim\u00f3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know it was possible to make a biopic this sentimental about Bunuel, of all people.  At least it&#8217;s animated, so we get the occasional vision of elephants on horse-leg stilts.  Opens with artists at a cafe arguing about the purpose of art, and closes with Luis discovering that art is for helping the poor people, I guess.  The movie could at least use animation to abstract away all the gruesome animal killings from the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6289\">Las Hurdes<\/a><\/em> shoot, and it does, but then it makes sure to show us the original footage right after.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/bunuelturtles2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>After a screening of <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17\"><em>L&#8217;age d&#8217;or<\/em><\/a> ends in fire and threats, LB is annoyed that everyone thinks all his good ideas come from Dali, then he can&#8217;t get funding for a follow-up until his cousin wins the lottery.  LB and producer cousin and cameraman and writer meet in the mountains, get into hijinks, and shoot a movie.  LB has many flashbacks and dreams about trying to please his father, and everyone learns a little something about truth and fiction and the true purpose of art.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/bunuelturtles1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know it was possible to make a biopic this sentimental about Bunuel, of all people. At least it&#8217;s animated, so we get the occasional vision of elephants on horse-leg stilts. Opens with artists at a cafe arguing about the purpose of art, and closes with Luis discovering that art is for helping the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,477,96,6],"class_list":["post-13803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animal-slaughter","tag-animation","tag-luis-bunuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13819,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions\/13819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}