One of the many immortal directors with whom the Oscar was repeatedly elusive was the exiled Spaniard Luis Buñuel. Finally, on March 27, 1973, the academy knew how to repair the injustice by awarding him an award for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a film that once again showed the false bottom of the lives of the middle class, with more sympathy and humor than in previous ones. tapes. As the review in La Vanguardia said, “Don Luis seems to have picked up the subtlety of the picaresque of the Spanish literary genre, transferring it to the current space, place and time”.
The Oscar would be for the best foreign film for France, the country where the Aragonese was working at the time after a long period in Mexico. Showing off his baturra nobility, Buñuel would declare that the Oscar “doesn’t matter to me”.
