Un Chien Andalou

[Floyd.]

I've heard the title a few times and faintly remember reeading a review in the newspaper a while back now. Though what has really sparked my interest was a film maker talking about his favourite films all of which were pretty much mine except this one which I have never seen. Can somebody please fill me in?

[Jersey Devil]

Bunuel and Dali film. Avant-garde with some of Dali's surrealism. Has some criticism of religion and social institutions as holding back human nature, don't want to give it away but there is a part where Dali is trying to have sex with a woman but literally relgion holds him back. It also makes "film tricks" with continuous action.

(I've seen the film before)

[EneME]

It's interesting to say the least....I didn't find it quite spectacular, but maybe I wasn't seeing it in the right context as it was quite a few years ago and I was young. I found it to be quite bizarre, and that one part was really freaky and out of no where....everyone who see's it knows what I mean.. :blink:

[Floyd.]

Is it silent?

Jersey Devil:
I like being told the endings that way I know what yo look for and take away more from the film. So please feel free to go into detail if you can be bothered.

[Jersey Devil]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2005, 06:11 AM
It's interesting to say the least....I didn't find it quite spectacular, but maybe I wasn't seeing it in the right context as it was quite a few years ago and I was young. I found it to be quite bizarre, and that one part was really freaky and out of no where....everyone who see's it knows what I mean.. :blink:
The eye. Think of it this way, she is sitting down and her eye is being cut by a razor.....she's suppose to be the person watching the movie. Anyway, avant-garde films are suppose to be weird in that way, though I did not particularly like it.

Also, it is not silent, I don't think it was anyway.

Anyone ever seen Scorpio Rising?

[Floyd.]

I've seen the eye slicing before and always related it to Dali and knew it was from a film but had never seen it. It makes more sense to me now; didn't Man Ray also have some hand in Un Chien Andalou perhaps or am I imagining it?

[resisting arrest with violence]

It is a very short film 15-20. Makes absolutely no sense. But it was meant to be nonsensical---surrealistic.


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