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Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou

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Summary

Silent experimental classic directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written by Salvador Dali. A series of vignettes tell the surrealist tale of a young woman's bizarre experiences with a succession of men and animals.

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Review

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Andrew Collins

How best to recommend a film that runs for less than 20 minutes, with no discernible plot and that opens with one of cinema's most abidingly shocking sequences? Also featuring a grand piano, ants crawling out of a stigmata-like hole in the palm of a hand, and a stuffed giraffe, it is still regarded, rightly, as a cinematic landmark. The term "surreal" is nowadays used as a critical cover-all, but in this case director Luis Buñuel and co-writer Salvador Dalí were setting the pace. Search for deeper meaning with due care and attention, or simply sit back and enjoy the abandon with which this juxtaposes ideas and images, sometimes jarringly, occasionally as visual rhymes, such as the cloud slicing across the moon that becomes a razor blade swiped across a woman's eyeball (still the film's greatest coup). You don't have to be Freud to get something out of it.

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Cast

rolenameYoung manPierre BatcheffGirlSimone MareuilMan with razorLuis BuñuelMarist priestSalvador DalíSeminaristJaime Miravilles

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rolenameDirectorLuis Buñuel

Details

Theatrical distributor

Contemporary Films Ltd

Released on

2004-02-13

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Guidance

Contains violent imagery.

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Black and white

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