Un Chien Andalou

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20min

Release:

1928

Distributor:

Transflux Films

Starring:

Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel ... More

Synopsis: Fledging director Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali create this ultimate surrealist film, which is essentially a barrage of striking and irrational images designed to shock and provoke. During the course of the film, we witness a close-up of a woman's eye being slashed open with a razor; a man dragging a piano, two bishops, and a pair of rotting asses across a room; ants swarming around a hole in a man's palm; and sundry severed limbs and gratuitous slayings. Though this was originally a silent ... Full Synopsis

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	Jonathan Crow, AMG Review Un chien andalou is a landmark of early avant-garde cinema. Impatient with the polite cinematic surrealism of artists like Man Ray, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali wanted to stir things up and create "a despairing, passionate call to murder." Indeed, the images in Chien horrify even today, most notably the notorious eye-slashing scene near the beginning of the film. Many of the images seem to spring ... Read Review

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	Pierre Batcheff Man Simone Mareuil Luis Buñuel Man with a Razor Salvador Dali Seminarist

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