Un Chien Andalou (1928) Directed by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel

From wikipedia:
The film opens with a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor (the man with the razor is played by Buñuel himself), and continues with a series of surreal scenes

"American film critic Roger Ebert called Un chien andalou "the most famous short film ever made, and anyone halfway interested in the cinema sees it sooner or later, usually several times."[1]

Critics have suggested that Un chien andalou can be understood as a typically Buñuelian anti-bourgeois, anticlerical piece. The man dragging a piano, donkey and priests has been interpreted as an allegory of man's progress towards his goal being hindered by the baggage of society's conventions that he is forced to bear. Likewise, the image of an eyeball being sliced by a razor can be understood as Buñuel "attacking" the film's viewers. Also, Federico García Lorca viewed this film as a personal attack on him."

other images to look for!
* an androgynous woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with her cane
* a man drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and two live priests (Dalí plays one of the priests in this scene)
* a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge. The French phrase "ants in the palms," (which means that someone is "itching" to kill) is shown literally.
* a woman's armpit hair attaches itself to a man's face.

I've seen photos from this in my film history textbook, but never the film. Thanks.

Slicing up eyeballs i want you to know.... Debaser

I saw this film in my French film class, which was one of the best academic experiences of my life. This film is truly awesome, I have been putting off watching another Buñuel film "The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068361/

Suppose I will have to watch it later tonight.

yes! creativity in surrealist art is timeless.

disturbing. but i guess if i say i don´t like it, i seem dumb, as it is art and one has to admire it...

saw "discrete charm" a while back. remembered it as good, but not quite as surreal influenced.

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well it is??? Mines not...it will be though, the folks who omn the rights, cut this one who knows how long ago....

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