Why Luis Buñuel’s bourgeois satires are perfect pandemic viewing

The Spanish master’s back catalogue is filled with pertinent messages, including a parody of social distancing.

The director’s slow cinema musical from 1998 sees a mysterious epidemic send Taipei into lockdown.

On one hand, the comforting familiarity of a rewatch. On the other, broadened horizons.

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