Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Directed by: Luis Bunuel
My Rate: 3/5
A woman's eye is cut by a razor blade in the very beginning of the film! Then some irrelevant other sequences are shown: A man trying but unable to reach that woman in a room, because of the burden of a dead donkey, two priests and a grand piano around his neck. In another scene that man has an ant colony in his palm. This couple are walking at the beach in the end!
This (17 minutes) short film has no story line. It's just sequences of some grotesque surrealistic scenes which can mean everything or nothing to the audience. Probably the easiest scene is that I mentioned, when the man tries to reach his desire, religion (priests) and tradition (piano) don't let him. But what's the donkey?
Anyway I think I should study about surrealism and of course Salvador Dali who has cooperated with Bunuel in the screenplay, to understand the film. These two have made another film in 1930 called L'Age D'Or (The Golden Age). I have seen it too, but it has a more clear story line than this one and it was slightly more reachable.
Anyway I think I should study about surrealism and of course Salvador Dali who has cooperated with Bunuel in the screenplay, to understand the film. These two have made another film in 1930 called L'Age D'Or (The Golden Age). I have seen it too, but it has a more clear story line than this one and it was slightly more reachable.
1 comment:
Hey, that's a hard movie to comment. I saw it some years ago, and I wouldn't be able to tell what is it about. I just remember the eye, the piano, a cyclist, and many other things, but no idea what is it about.
I have also seen 'L'age d'Or" and "Simon en el desierto" ("Simon in the desert"). I can just say that Buñuel is completely obsesed with religion (regarded as something negative).
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