Un Chien Andalou

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Caleb L Oct 5 A really amazing look at early surrealism horror that still holds up today, even if the pacing is a little slower. See more Tonatiuh C @tonaman Sep 3 Empecé a ver Un perro Andaluz con el ánimo de quien empieza a leer un poema de Garcia Lorca y estaba contento con esa experiencia hasta el final cuando salió en una toma de espaldas Salvador Dalí mirando el horizonte en la playa en su clásica actitud arrogante, inmediatamente después aparece el personaje femenino y empiezan a caminar y se encuentran la cajita misteriosa, es hasta ahí donde podemos darle algún sentido a las imágenes que vimos anteriormente (si es lo que queremos…) See more Alexsander F 10/18/2024 Um filme brillante de cunho surrealista dos eminentes Buñuel e Salvador Dali, é o cinema experimental e bizarro, mas um tanto quanto lúdico e imaginário. See more Christian K @ckacar 03/25/2024 You could certainly call it disturbing, bizarre, and weird. Could you imagine dreaming that your girls armpit hair replaced your mouth? See more Frank P @FrankieP543 11/06/2023 I saw this as part of an intro to a David Bowie concert back in the 80's. Fascinating with the exception of the revolting eyeball footage. Would never want to see it again. See more Matthew B 08/17/2023 Any attempt to put together the enfant terrible of cinema and the enfant terrible of the art world was bound to result in mischief. In 1929, this took the form of Un Chien Andalou. The title refers to a Spanish expression: "An Andalusian dog howls –someone has died". Other than catching the sinister mood of this production, the title is largely meaningless. The two collaborators who made Un Chien Andalou were the artist Salvador Dali and the future film-maker, Luis Buñuel. Both men were Spanish, surrealists, iconoclasts and born troublemakers. What made Un Chien Andalou memorable was shock value. It must be the most famous shocking film of the silent era. It includes such images as an eyeball being slashed by a razor, ants crawling out of a hole in a man's hand, another hand that has been severed, the rotting corpses of two donkeys lying across two pianos, and a couple of young lovers half-buried and seemingly dead on a beach. The film is said to have been intended to present suppressed human emotions as its subject matter. This would certainly explain the weird and ugly images on screen, but I would be inclined to take such an explanation of the film very lightly. In truth the danger of watching Un Chien Andalou is to look for meaning or symbolism where there is none. The images in the film came largely from the dreams of Dali and Buñuel. The film seeks to maintain that dream logic. The imagery is surrealistic. The chain of events is presented without connection. There is no continuity or causation. If you wish to seek meaning or an explanation for what is happening, then you are wasting your time. The message here is precisely the lack of message. The film has no narrative or story, and exists as art. I wrote a longer appreciation of the film on my blog page if you are interested in reading more. It can be found at: https://themoviescreenscene.wordpress.com/2020/09/10/un-chien-andalou-an-andalusian-dog-1929/ See more Read all reviews

Un Chien Andalou

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