Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
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Title: Un Chien Andalou (1929)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Simone Mareuil | ... | Young girl (as Simonne Mareuil) | |
| Pierre Batcheff | ... | Man (as Pierre Batchef) | |
In a surrealistic film with input from Salvador Dalí, director Luis Buñuel presents stark, surrealistic images including the slitting open of a woman's eye and a dead horse being pulled along on top of a piano. A mysterious film open to interpretations ranging from deep to completely meaningless, this short (17-minute) film certainly presented something new in the cinema of its day. Written by garykmcd
It's hard to conceive of a time when film was at its most primitive state but the 1920s was just that; it was a time when people were still trying to understand how images could be used to penetrate people's deepest emotions. In Buñuel and Dalí's Un chien andalou (1929), there is literally no understandable plot. And yet, the imagery on display elicits unsettling feelings and, even 90 years later, one can see just how ahead of their time these two visionaries were. True Artists. It's easy to see the film's immense influence through the body of work of auteurs like David Lynch and Gaspar Noé. It's not to try and "get", it's to "feel".