The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Direction
Saura channels Buñuel's spirit with playful irreverence
Production
Toledo locations blur past, present and future beautifully
Director
Carlos Saura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Saura made this during his own late-career period, essentially becoming what he filmed: an old master reflecting on vanished friends.
The real Buñuel died in 1983, Lorca was executed in 1936, and Dalí outlasted them both—yet the film invents a shared ending for all three.
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