Un Chien Andalou
1929 Directed by Luis Buñuel
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Un Chien Andalou is a classic European avant-garde surrealist film from the cooperation of Director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. The film changed the way people made movies. Most famous is the scene of a man’s eye being cut with a knife.
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Note: I previously wrote and published this review on my blog.
It is one of the most famous short films of all time. In my opinion, it is one of the greatest movies in existence. Some agree with me, some disagree vehemently. But one thing cannot be denied: it opens with one of the most famous images in cinema’s history, that of a calf’s eye being sliced by a razorblade. And from there, it only continues to dazzle, amaze, shock, frighten and intrigue viewers for sixteen precious minutes more.
I recently recommended the film to a co-worker, who watched it and returned, bemused, to ask me: “What the hell was the point of that?” I smiled. Indeed. What is the…
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A nightmare short film full of beautiful and disturbing images, none of which make a lick of sense -- by design. I am convinced that there would be no Log Lady or backwards-talking dwarf without it.
You have to see it at least once.
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Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two - One to cut open the eyeball with a razor while the other puts the donkey corpses on the pianos.
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Film #12, Country #12 (Spain) in the 30 Countries in 30 Days Challenge
Wow, wow, wow. I was shocked within the first minute of this film. I can only imagine how this film was received back in 1929.
If silent movies were not haunting and creepy enough, this film takes things to another level of creepiness. I found it rather humorous when I read that Salvador Dalí (writer) and Luis Buñuel (write/director) intention was to shock audiences. "Legend has it that, when they screened the film for the group of noted European artists calling themselves "surrealists," they carried sacks of rocks in their pockets on opening night as self-defense, expecting a negative response from the audience.[19] This was not a…
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15th Film for Around the World in May- Spain
Another edit I had to make to my list to include this classic short film from the great Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali.
This short to me is the greatest ever filmed and the most prominent example of experimental film or avant garde. After I had seen this film for the first time, I became fascinated by the whole surrealist style of film-making and have always tried to include similar material on anything that I shoot or write.
This film highlights and takes forward dream sequences that have become the norm in films since then and the effects for a film made at that time and simply astounding.
Would recommend this to everyone and no one should not have seen this film during their life.
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You have to appreciate cinema on a whole other level to the general cinema going public, and to the smug, condescending critics to really enjoy Un Chien Andalou. And I think I am nearly there. A surrealist 16 min gem conceived from random ideas and dreams tacked together by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, the film throws all caution to the wind.
Using a narrative (or lack therof) based on 'Dream Logic' Bunuel crafted a film of seemingly unrelated segments specifically designed to shock, titillate, confuse and irritate and as a result become a cinematic representation of the minds ability to create absurd images and scenarios that represent repressed emotions. This objective alone capitalised on the popular Freudian theories of…
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I love the free association of this film. It is so passionate and overt in it's surrealist measure. Bunuel is always masterful in his ability to discount humanity to such a trivial being. It is very easy to be seduced by Un Chien Andalou. The film is a manifestation of psychological being in a very dream like and captivating structure.
I particularly love the role of women in this work. Women play a very prominent part in this surrealist film. There is no narrative nor linear structure so it is difficult to determine their importance. Aside from that, it is interesting to watch them move through the sequences of the film as they interpret what is around them. The presence…
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15th Film for Around the World in May- Spain
Another edit I had to make to my list to include this classic short film from the great Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali.
This short to me is the greatest ever filmed and the most prominent example of experimental film or avant garde. After I had seen this film for the first time, I became fascinated by the whole surrealist style of film-making and have always tried to include similar material on anything that I shoot or write.
This film highlights and takes forward dream sequences that have become the norm in films since then and the effects for a film made at that time and simply astounding.
Would recommend this to everyone and no one should not have seen this film during their life.
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I could watch this film over and over till my eyes bleed, or get cut open.
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Film #12, Country #12 (Spain) in the 30 Countries in 30 Days Challenge
Wow, wow, wow. I was shocked within the first minute of this film. I can only imagine how this film was received back in 1929.
If silent movies were not haunting and creepy enough, this film takes things to another level of creepiness. I found it rather humorous when I read that Salvador Dalí (writer) and Luis Buñuel (write/director) intention was to shock audiences. "Legend has it that, when they screened the film for the group of noted European artists calling themselves "surrealists," they carried sacks of rocks in their pockets on opening night as self-defense, expecting a negative response from the audience.[19] This was not a…
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Don't know about you, but I am un chien andalucia.
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Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two - One to cut open the eyeball with a razor while the other puts the donkey corpses on the pianos.
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I saw this in film school, and I'm just really not a fan of this sort of thing. My rating is probably an unfair gut reaction because it is undoubtedly effective, but I've had no desire to give this another shot since.
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I think I know what it means.
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I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I got. My only previous experience with anything approaching surrealism has been Mulholland Drive which I really enjoyed, but that didn't really prepare me for the full on weirdness of this. This short film is (in?)famous for the scene involving an eye being sliced open with a razor but also includes: men with ants crawling out of holes in their hands; severed hands being put into boxes; and a man dragging two donkey-laden pianos towards a terrified woman. Suffice to say it's not the easiest storyline to understand.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about this: on the one hand I can appreciate the artistry involved -…