Bunuel_Luis_My_Last_Breath

Spain and France(1931-1936)THE bloodless coup that established the Spanish Republicwas greeted with wild enthusiasm, but after the king hadgone, the celebration gave way to uneasiness, and then to profoundanxiety. During the five years before the Civil War, I livedin an apartment on the rue Pascal in Paris and earned my livingdubbing Paramount pictures; from 1934 on, however, I lived inMadrid.I've never been one of those people who take trips for the sheerpleasure of traveling. Despite what seems a widespread mania forrunning about the world, I myself have no curiosity whatsoever aboutforeign countries. (On the other hand, I love going back to placesI've been, places full of memories, and staying there for long periodsof time.) The Vicomte de Noailles had a brother-in-law, the Princede Ligne, the descendant of an old and illustrious Belgian family.When de Noailles found out that I had a passion for Polynesia, heassumed I had wanderer's blood in my veins and proposed that Iaccompany him on an expedition through sub-Sahara Africa, organizedby the prince, who was then the governor general of the Belgian