
In a surrealistic film with input from Salvador Dalí, director Luis Buñuel presents stark, surrealistic images including the slitting open of a woman's eye and a dead horse being pulled along on top of a piano. A mysterious film open to interpretations ranging from deep to completely meaningless, this short (17-minute) film certainly presented something new in the cinema of its day.... (Full plot summary below)
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In a surrealistic film with input from Salvador Dalí, director Luis Buñuel presents stark, surrealistic images including the slitting open of a woman's eye and a dead horse being pulled along on top of a piano. A mysterious film open to interpretations ranging from deep to completely meaningless, this short (17-minute) film certainly presented something new in the cinema of its day.
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| Edinburgh U Film SocietyKeith H. BrownThe result of an amalgamation of the dreams of a madman (Dali) and a genius (Buñuel), Un Chien Andalou shocked the world three quarters of a decade ago and continues to do so today. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenPlenty of movies follow dream logic. This has dream rhythm. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsTed PriggeAn exercise in a dream-like state, resulting in the most surreal film ever made. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou is absolutely essential viewing for anyone seriously interested in cinema. |
| New York TimesCaryn JamesThis is the avant-garde masterpiece with the razor across an eyeball and dead donkeys sprawled across pianos. |
| Filmcritic.comJake EukerIt was released in 1929, but it still has the power to make audiences cringe today and it may remain the most notorious 16 minutes of film ever made. |
| The Age (Australia)Philippa HawkerIt is a mysterious, free-associating accumulation of images of violence, beauty and absurdity that confounded those who saw it then and confounds viewers still. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher Nullan introduction to the power of the irrational and to the concept that art could exist for its own sake |
| Scene 360Anton BitelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí deployed voguish ideas of Freudian free association, and Surrealist dream logic to unsettle bourgeois values and destabilize cinematic convention. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA movie like this is a tonic. It assaults old and unconscious habits of moviegoing. |