Buñuel and Dalí’s Surrealist Film “Un Chien Andalou”
Posted on June 21, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment
A. O. Scott looks at a slice of surreal life in Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s short film “Un Chien Andalou.” Mr. Scott praises Buñuel’s filmmaking, saying that he was “among the first to discover that the language of cinema could proceed beyond the boundaries of sense and produce powerful and strange effects and emotions.”
It was Buñuel’s first film and was initially released in 1929 to a limited showing in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months.
The film has no plot in the conventional sense of the word. The chronology of the film is disjointed, jumping from the initial “once upon a time” to “eight years later” without the events or characters changing very much. It uses dream logic in narrative flow that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes.
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Everytime I watch this movie (or any other surreal clips for that matter) I just want to take my camera and make my own surreal silent film.