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 | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: 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?
This is a must see for cinephiles and has to be admired for its being so ahead of its time and the debt owed to it by LIndsay Anderson, David Lynch et al. The extras try to provide some expertise to the very short film and this is when you hit pseuds corner and starts to diminsh the film and you wonder if it was only a clever little game being played by 2 artists wanting to attract attention. The decision is yours.