Other Titles • An Andalusian Dog • Un chien andalou
Synopses for An Andalusian Dog (1929)
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Un Chien Andalou remains a startling artifact suggesting ways in which film can express the subconscious. The result of Luis Bunuel's collaboration with Salvador Dali, the 17-minute, 1929 film was designed expressly to shock and provoke. Opening with the canonical eyeball-slashing sequence and divided into baffling "chapters", this is a work of art obsessed with religion, lust, decay, violence, and death. Un Chien Andalou isn't simply one of the great works of the surrealist movement, but a segment of cinematic DNA that irrevocably altered the aesthetics of film. In its tangled corridors you find the seeds to the disappearing-mouth bit in The Matrix, the carcasses strewn through Peter Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts and pretty much the entire oeuvre of David Lynch. --Ryan Boudinot
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Two masterpieces by influential Spanish surrealist Luis Bunuel. "Un Chien Andalou," Bunuel's first film, continues to shock audiences as it did in 1928 with its provocative imagery, including the infamous cutting open of an eye with a straight razor. "Land Without Bread" is a horrifying account of one of Spain's most desolate and poverty-stricken rural regions, Las Hurdes.
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Filmed in Paris in 1929, UN CHIEN ANDALOU is regarded as the first film produced purely from within the Surrealist movement and is a landmark in the history of cinema. Loving treatment to DVD includes, as bonus material, an interview/documentary with Juan Luis Bunuel (Luis' son), commentary by Surrealism expert Stephen Barber, excerpts from Luis Bunuel's 1953 address "Mystery of Cinema", and beautiful illustrations by UK artist Dave Mckean.
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