Cela s'appelle l'Aurore
Luis Buñuel
Dr Valerio works for an industrial company on a Mediterranean island. On day he meets Clara and falls in love with her, while his wife decides to return to the mainland. But when he decides to hide Sandro, a friend of his who has committed a desperate murder, Valerio goes down a path which will change his life for ever...
With : Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosé, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Jacques Delbo, Simone Paris, Robert Le Fort, Brigitte Elloy, Gaston Modot
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Jean Ferry, d'après le roman éponyme d'Emmanuel Robles
Image : Robert Le Febvre
Sound : Antoine Petitjean
Music : Joseph Kosma
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Marguerite Renoir
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Jean Ferry, d'après le roman éponyme d'Emmanuel Robles
Image : Robert Le Febvre
Sound : Antoine Petitjean
Music : Joseph Kosma
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Marguerite Renoir
Production : Les films Marceau, Lætitia Films
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
Cela s'appelle l'aurore is one of the rare films where Buñuel directly explores the question of belonging to a social class. Here, the social condition of the main character is not just information, but it is questioned and queried in his choices. In the background, the film plays out the relationships between the working class and the bourgeoisie. "I am not deterministic; I don't believe that anyone is morally determined for ever through the fact of being born in such or such social class. Being born bourgeois does not condemn anyone to thinking and acting bourgeois for the whole of their lives. Living together changes the way people are" (Luis Buñuel). Despite the socio-political issues, the film sometimes ventures into the world of dreams, through the collaboration of author Jean Ferry, the film's scriptwriter and member of the surrealist movement.