Bunuel and King Solomon's Table ( Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón ) ( Bunuel & King Solomon's Table )

Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón
Alternate Title: Bunuel & King Solomon's Table
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Carlos Saura

Written By:
Carlos Saura
Agustín Sánchez Vidal

Actors:
Ernesto Alterio ..... Salvador Dalí
Pere Arquillué ..... Luis Bunuel
Jean-Claude Carrière ..... David Goldman
Amira Casar ..... Fátima
Adriá Collado ..... Federico Garcia Lorca
Armando De Razza ..... Evilio Avendaño
El Gran Wyoming ..... Luis Buñuel anciano
Juan Luis Galiardo ..... Crítico
Eusebio Lázaro ..... El Judio Errante
Valeria Marini ..... Ana maria de Zayas
Estrella Morente ..... Flamenco singer

Synopsis:

Noted Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura follows up on his 1999 opus Goya with this wild and woolly reimagining of a 1930s adventure serial from the mind of a surrealist master. The film opens in the present with an aged Luis Buñuel listening to a script pitch about the search for a magical table smuggled from the Ottoman empire to Spain several centuries ago. As the spiel plods on, Buñuel's mind drifts, imagining himself during his prime with his buddies Salvador Dali and Garcia Lorca. The trio search for the missing item of furniture through the winding alleys and sewers of Toledo. Along the way, the actors playing Buñuel, Dali, and Lorca reflect on playing the parts of great artists while engaging in witty banter with one another. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.

Toledo in the 30s: The godfather of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Loca and the painter Salvador Dalí are on a search for the mythical table of King Salomon, which is known to have the power to see in the past, the present and the future. Their scour paths them through hilarious moments of absurdity and lots of references to movie history.

What hides behind King Solomons Table? Why is it hidden in Toledo?. Carlos Saura, in wanting to pay tribute to his friend and fellow countryman, the renowned Aragon filmmaker Luis Buñuel, has given him the best gift a director can offer; his own work, a fiction film in which Buñuel plays the starring role.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 18 September, 2008.

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