One of the most original documentaries on Luis Buñuel has been produced by the director’s long-time producer, co-conspirator, and friend, Serge Silberman. Although Silberman worked throughout his long career with such legendary filmmakers as Orson Welles, Jean-Pierre Melville, Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Becker, and Nagisa Oshima, he has recounted that "it was only with Buñuel that I had this symbiosis, this complicity." In The Paradoxes of Buñuel, Silberman focuses on the innumerable contradictions in the director’s life and work—contradictions that came to serve as essential elements of his creativity. Among the most delicious of these paradoxes is the way in which Buñuel came to judge himself: he expressed contempt for his own work, claimed to detest art in general, and publicly declared that he would willingly set fire to the negatives of all his films. This is a work replete with the subversive charm and bite of its subject.