Review of Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Stephen C — 26 Sep 2011
16 minutes of surrealist mastery From Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel.
The film opens with the now notorious eyeball slicing scene ,and wonders down the path marked off the wall.
Images are designed to shock and shock they do with ants burrowing in the palm of a hand ,a man dragging priests and Pianos with dead donkeys across a floor , a chap with no mouth,Deaths head moths and an exit door to a beach.
Its here where Polanski amd Lynch must have come for their ideas and the film still has the power to provoke debate all these years after it was first seen.
Look for hidden meanings and revel in the fact it got made at all ,this silent short is still fresh and vibrant.
This review of Un Chien Andalou (1929) was written by Stephen C on 26 Sep 2011.
Un Chien Andalou has generally received very positive reviews.
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