Un chien andalou (1928)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 17m silent
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Jaime Miravilles, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel
Synopsis:
Nothing whatever to do with a dog from Southern Spain.
Review:
An eye being sliced by a razor blade, dead donkeys on grand pianos pulled by Jesuit priests, a hand riddled with ants and an androgynous woman prodding a severed hand; these are some of the scandalous images conjured up by the young surrealists keen to make a film and include the stuff of their dreams. It certainly fulfils its brief, manages to be both funny and shocking, and is fortunately very short. Argentinian tango and Wagner's Liebestod provide musical backing (alternately, not at the same time).
Country: FR
Technical: bw 17m silent
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Jaime Miravilles, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel
Synopsis:
Nothing whatever to do with a dog from Southern Spain.
Review:
An eye being sliced by a razor blade, dead donkeys on grand pianos pulled by Jesuit priests, a hand riddled with ants and an androgynous woman prodding a severed hand; these are some of the scandalous images conjured up by the young surrealists keen to make a film and include the stuff of their dreams. It certainly fulfils its brief, manages to be both funny and shocking, and is fortunately very short. Argentinian tango and Wagner's Liebestod provide musical backing (alternately, not at the same time).
Country: FR
Technical: bw 17m silent
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Jaime Miravilles, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel
Synopsis:
Nothing whatever to do with a dog from Southern Spain.
Review:
An eye being sliced by a razor blade, dead donkeys on grand pianos pulled by Jesuit priests, a hand riddled with ants and an androgynous woman prodding a severed hand; these are some of the scandalous images conjured up by the young surrealists keen to make a film and include the stuff of their dreams. It certainly fulfils its brief, manages to be both funny and shocking, and is fortunately very short. Argentinian tango and Wagner's Liebestod provide musical backing (alternately, not at the same time).