Truly Dreadful Film

Sorry, this movie sucks

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Un Chien Andalou is a compelling silent-movie depicting the nonsensical dreams of Luis Bunuel and collaborator Salvador Dali. Establishing himself as a surrealist and a unique visionary, Bunuel uses violence, sex and shock to create a wonderful nightmarish concoction of reality and fantasy. The director blurs the lines regarding to "what is" and "what is not". Written in just three weeks, Un Chien Andalou is perhaps one of the most profound films in cinema and a beacon of artistic compulsion. The film is not nearly as clean nor structured as Bunuel's later works, yet it is a fantastic reference to "where it all began" and beautifully summarises Bunuel's legacy as a filmmaker.

Un Chien Andalou is 16 minutes of surreal silent film that makes less sense than painting my knackers green and setting them on fire while singing the national anthem. Director Louis Buñuel, collaborating with artist Salvador Dalí, delivers a series of perplexing images, some of which are extremely disturbing (the slicing of a woman's eye with a straight razor), some of which are daring (the fondling of a naked pair of breasts and a bare ass), and many of which are downright bizarre (a man pulling two pianos weighed down by dead donkeys and a pair of priests!?!).Other memorable imagery includes ants crawling out of a hole in the palm of a man's hand, an androgynous woman poking a severed hand with a stick, and a guy losing his mouth only to have it replaced by the pubic hair from a lady's armpit. Almost impossible to rate since I had no idea what any of it meant, hence my non-committal score of 5/10.

This strange little pioneering Surrealist film from 1929 has an overflowing handful of interesting images, and is also quite boring. But I also think it's an early example of societal decay being re-packaged as "groundbreaking." Just look at the images they use. There is an androgynous woman being protected by the police while she puts a severed hand into a box. Then there's a guy dressed up as a nun riding a bike, with the same box. There is a softcore porn scene, extreme violence in close-up, and a man's mouth morphing into a woman's muff.These are provocative images that mess with facets of human sexuality and the urge for violence that really should be left alone. Men aren't women, and women aren't men, 99% of the time. Period. You mess with people's identities, and this includes gender, then you get serious mental illness.I happen to believe that this was a film deeply informed by an understanding of human psychology, and how to manipulate it. Yes there are taboos in culture, but they are there for a reason -- if everyone is a mental patient, then the world becomes an asylum. Which most old-timers agree we have now.Funny, I read Bunuel was also vehemently anti-religion. Huh. Doesn't like absolute morality. I bet he doesn't, people are easier to exploit that way.

Luis Bunuel's and Salvador Dali's surrealistic 'An Andalusian Dog' was their first and it is called the seminal surrealist film. The film has no plot, or at least in the conventional sense, and is built up like a dream sequence with seemingly random scenes. But it's not meant to be a dream, it's just a different world (or a parallel universe if one wishes). Bunuel and Dali didn't meant to contrive a plot that could make sense. Even the title was intended to make any sense.This film has also given us one of the most memorable and haunting scenes in the history of the cinema - slicing a woman's eyeball with shaving knife. And this horrifying image probably has brought many people to see this surrealistic gem.This film is notable also because it was one of the first real independent film that was made without any studio support on a shoestring budget. 'An Andalusian Dog' has influenced many independent filmmakers throughout history. An of course it has been influence to many surrealist artist and even for a Sex Pistols.Probably everyone who are half interested about film in general will find this film one day.