Bunuel_Luis_My_Last_Breath

the day, and in the evening I read them what I'd written. Throughit all, they never voiced a single objection; they found everything"exquisite and delicious. "In its final version, the film ran for an hour, much longer thanChien andalou. Dali sent me several ideas, and one of them at leastfound its way into the film: A man with a rock on his head is walkingin a public garden. He passes a statue. The statue also has a rock onits head!"It looks like an American movie," he told me, which was Dali'sidea of a compliment.The shooting schedule was meticulously set up so as not to wastetime or money. My fiancee, Jeanne, served as the accountant. WhenI gave Charles de Noailles my list of expenses after the film wasfinished, we came in under budget. He left the sheets on his deskwhen we went in to dinner; later in the evening, I saw the charredpages and realized that he'd burned the accounts. It was a beautifuland generous gesture, the more so since it was done in private; Iadmired this lack of ostentation more than any other of his admirablequalities.L'Age d'w was shot at the Billancourt studios, while Eisensteinwas making Romance sentimentale on the neighboring set. I'd met mymale lead, Gaston Modot, a guitar player and hispanophile, in Montparnasse;Lya Lys, the female lead, had been sent to me by an agent,along with Elsa Kuprine, the daughter of a Russian writer. (I can'tremember now why I chose Lya.) As in Chien andalou, Duverger wasmy cameraman and Marval the production manager. (Marval alsoplayed one of the bishops who are tossed out the window.) A Russiandid the sets for the interiors at the studio, and the exteriors were shotin Catalonia, near Cadaquks, and in the outskirts of Paris. Max Ernstplayed the bandit chief; Pierre Prevert, the sick bandit; and JacquesPrwert, the man walking down the street. Among the guests in thesalon scene are Valentine Hugo, tall and handsome, standing nextto a small man with a very large mustache~the famous Spanishceramist Artigas, a friend of Picasso. (The Italian embassy thought