Un Chien Andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog) is a 16-minute surrealist film made in France in 1928 by Spanish writer/directors Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, and released in 1929 in Paris. It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s. It is also considered one of the most prominent films in Spanish Surrealism. It stars Simone Mareuil and Pierre Batcheff as the unnamed protagonists.
The film has no plot, in the normal sense of the word. There are two central characters, an unnamed man and woman. The chronology of the film is disjointed: for example, it jumps from “once upon a time” to “eight years later” without the events changing. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes that attempt to shock the viewer.
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Got me a movie I want you to know!!!
Slicin up eyeballs i want you to know!!!
I am unn… CHIEN! Andalou!
when i grow up… wanna be a DEBASER.
Surrealism loses it’s translation in film. Dali’s best work is on paper/canvas.
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Haha… I remember seeing this for the first time, and bugging out.
I also remember the day I realized that this is what the Pixies were singing about in Debaser, and bugging double-hard.