![]() Deneuve filming in Mexico with Jean-Claude Carrière.įor a filmmaker’s parting words, My Last Sigh has few industry-related stories or behind-the-scenes revelations, except for a few anecdotes, more revolving around his life than the progression of his career. Their partnership has produced Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), Belle de Jour (1968), The Milky Way (1970), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974), and Buñuel’s last film, That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). More likely, he, as people of great character often have the courage to do, must have decided he had done enough living and it was time to pen the last paragraphs of a dynamic eighty-three years.īuñuel wrote My Last Sigh with the help of his frequent collaborator and close friend, French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. The strange timing of this ultimate declaration, this final earthly breath of creative force, so closely followed by Buñuel’s death, makes one wonder if he had any definite knowledge of the time, date, latitude or longitude of his “last sigh”. ![]() The work was translated as My Last Sigh the following year, after the director’s death. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1982, filmmaker, surrealist, and provocateur of the status quo (be it religion, morality, or bourgeois mentality), Luis Buñuel published a book of memoirs and musings called Mon Dernier Soupir. ![]()
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