Produced with the help of family, friends, and colleagues of Buñuel’s from across Europe and North America, this new portrait of the filmmaker captures the life of one of the most complex figures of the international cinema. Through original interviews, unpublished letters, and recordings we learn intimate and unusual details of Buñuel’s dealings with some of the most important artists of the twentieth century: he helped Picasso to hang his famous painting Guernica, was thrown off a Hollywood set by Greta Garbo, attended one of Chaplin’s orgies, and tried to strangle the wife of the French poet Paul Éluard. The fascinating documentary materials are supplemented with excerpts from the half-century of films that are Buñuel’s legacy.