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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles review – intriguing animation

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A depiction of the making of Luis Buñuel’s documentary Las Hurdes is striking, but casts the director in an unflattering light

The career of director Luis Buñuel was very nearly over before it had even begun. The failure of his first feature, L’Age d’Or, a surrealist comedy made with Salvador Dalí, left him penniless and reviled. But then a sympathetic friend, the sculptor Ramón Acín, bought a lottery ticket and promised to fund Buñuel’s next film if it won. Miraculously, it did. This animation tells of the making of Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread), a documentary portrait of “the most miserable place in Spain”. Based on a graphic novel by Fermín Solis, it blends pleasing 2D animation with shots from the actual film to striking effect. With its dust and sherry-toned colour palette and starkly angular character design, it will intrigue animation fans. The film does not, however, paint Buñuel in a particularly flattering light: he is cavalier about friendships, insensitive to suffering and positively enthusiastic when it comes to animal cruelty.

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles is on BFI Player

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