Un Chien Andalou (2 discs)
1929, 205 minutes, Rated M
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's unfathomable short from 1929 is a masterpiece of filmmaking guile and audacity, a shocking celluloid dreamscape that destroyed film convention with bizarre images that still resonate today.
The film opens with a young Bunuel sharpening a knife, a cloud cutting the moon in the night sky, the said knife slicing a women's tender eyeball before shots of gaping, ant ridden hands and mouths stuffed with armpit hair push the film beyond its surrealist limits. Young subversives hoping to influence Paris's ruling artistic elite, Bunuel and Dali got more than they bargained for when their film redefined the entire movement.
- Director:
- Luis Bunuel [5],
- Starring:
- Simonne Mareuil [3], Pierre Batchel [3],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Language and Sound:
- French Mono
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