Luis Buñuel’s mini-masterpiece has smitten Patti Smith and Monty Python. All that’s left now is the cult of Mel Gibson.
The film’s little Bible stories are twisted evocations of the dumbing down of faith by Christian anxieties and hang-ups.
Buñuel both ushers the lovers into a romantic afterlife and fabulously ponders both Ricardo and Eduardo’s inability to distinguish between human beings and things.