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Right in the Eye: Luis Buñuel’s ‘Death in the Garden’ and ‘The Milky Way’

Right in the Eye: Luis Buñuel’s ‘Death in the Garden’ and ‘The Milky Way’

Luis Buñuel’s melodramas of survival, Death in the Garden and The Milky Way, carry on his proclivity for poking his characters – and his filmgoers – right in the eye.