An Andalusian Dog ( Un Chien Andalou )

An Andalusian Dog (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Un Chien Andalou
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
75 min + 60 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1929 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Luis Bunuel

Written By:
Salvador Dalí
Luis Bunuel

Actors:
Simone Mareuil ..... Young girl (as Simonne Mareuil)
Pierre Batcheff ..... Man (as Pierre Batchef)

Synopsis:

In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open - juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obscuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye - to grab the audience's attention. The French phrase 'ants in the palms,' (which means that someone is 'itching' to kill) is shown literally. A man pulls a piano along with the tablets of the Ten Commandments and a dead donkey towards the woman he's itching to kill. A shot of differently striped objects is repeatedly used to connect scenes.

Un Chien Andalou consists of seventeen minutes of bizarre and surreal images that may or may not mean anything. A straight razor seems to be placed by a woman's eye, a small cloud formation obscures the moon, a cow's eye is slit open, a woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with his cane, a man drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys and live priests, and a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge.

Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's unfathomable short film is a masterpiece of filmmaking guile and audacity, a shocking celluloid dreamscape that destroyed film convention with bizarre images that still resonate today. Includes an audio commentary with Michael Koller, film writer and curator, Melbourne Cinemateque.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 27 December, 2014.