Un Chien Andalou is Bunuel's first film and collaboration with Salvador Dali, a surreal exploration of desire and passion. L'Age D'or is another collaboration with Dali, a surrealist dissection of civilised values. Read more
| Starring | Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Jaime Miravilles, Luis Bunuel |
|---|---|
| Director | Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Un Chien Andalou is Bunuel's first film and collaboration with Salvador Dali, a surreal exploration of desire and passion. L'Age D'or is another collaboration with Dali, a surrealist dissection of civilised values.
| Starring | Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Jaime Miravilles, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali |
|---|---|
| Director | Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali |
| Studio | BFI VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 20 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | French |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Oct 2004 Production year: 1929 |
| Format | DVD |
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An eye-opener in more senses than one, this surrealist masterpiece — co-written by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali — still has the power to shock. Starting with an open razor (wielded by Buñuel) slicing a girl's eyeball, this short film goes on to clash lyrical images with violent ideas to show how love is held back by tradition. Sigmund Freud professed to enjoy it; the Fascists in Paris demonstrated against it. Not as meaningless as it seems, and as anti-clerical as Buñuel was to become in all his later films, it still has enormous intensity.
Prelude: a young woman sits compliantly as Buñuel takes a razor and slices her eye open. What follows is a documentary... read more on Time Out
Beats me.
That's all I was going to say, but I was told this review was too short to be accepted. Well, my answer is that the film is too short to count as a film. I could extend this review to an analysis of surrealism and experimental art in the early 2oth century but then I could be accused of pretentious twaddle. Is this long enough?
An absolute must for any fan of surrealism. I recommend watching the extra commentary, as it sheds light on what inspired Bunuel and Dali to make this film as they did.