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Un Chien Andalou
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1928)

    Un Chien Andalou

    Luis Buñuel, France, 1929, 21’

    This French short film is highly regarded in any film history book. Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel wrote his first feat together with Salvador Dalí, based on their dreams. The first official screening featured guests like Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. Initially, the film was to be shown only on a limited basis, but it soon grew into a popular attraction, remaining on show at Paris’ Studio des Ursulines for eight months.

    Don’t get stuck on the plot. Buñuel deliberately omits chronology and opts for Freudian dream logic, in which scenes do not necessarily follow one another logically. Un Chien Andalou is a film-historical milestone that, at the time, opened the doors for Dalí and Buñuel to join the ranks of surrealist André Breton.

    Bio Luis Buñuel

    Spanish and Mexican filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) is widely recognised as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. A daring iconoclast and mischief-maker, Buñuel combined surrealist non sequiturs with taboo-shattering attacks on the bourgeoisie, the church, and social hypocrisy. This resulted in some of the most incendiary films of the twentieth century. He collaborated with Salvador Dalí on the scandalous avant-garde landmark L’âge d’or (1930) and Un Chien Andalou (1929), a seminal work of surrealist cinema.
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