Movie: X-rated Film Classic: Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalour (1929)

See the movie trailer on video for free at Mubi.  This super-short clip may leave you howling in pain for days.  Viewer beware!   If you take the trouble to read Mr. Bongo's film history of "Luis Buñuel," you'll come across his pithy remarks on two films of which I'm especially appreciative, Viridiana and The Milky Way.  If you get a chance, you absolutely must view Viridiana with intelligent Christian friends, and afterward have a good discussion.

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UN CHIEN ANDALOU

France

1929

16 Min

Black and White

1.33:1

Silent

Subtitled in English

Audio in Silent

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Director: Luis Buñuel (1929)

PROD Luis Buñuel

SCR Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí

DP Albert Duverger, Jimmy Berliet

CAST Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Robert Hommet, Marval, Fano Messan, Jaume Miravitlles

ED Luis Buñuel

PROD DES Pierre Schild

Berlinale (Retrospective)

SYNOPSIS

Fledging director Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali create this ultimate surrealist film, which is essentially a barrage of striking and irrational images designed to shock and provoke.  During the course of the film, we witness a close-up of a woman’s eye being slashed open with a razor; a man dragging a piano, two bishops, and a pair of rotting asses across a room; ants swarming around a hole in a man’s palm; and sundry severed limbs and gratuitous slayings. Though this was originally a silent film, Buñuel later added a recorded score consisting of Liebestod from Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde and a number of popular tangos of the time.

LUIS BUÑUEL

Although regarded as the greatest artist of Spanish cinema Luis Buñuel only made three films that are Spanish by nationality. His exile from his homeland at the end of the Spanish Civil War resulted in extended periods in Mexico and France. Despite this displacement, Spain was never far from Buñuel’s mind. The peasant culture of the villages of Calanda and Zaragoza, many of them dating to the Middle-Ages, greatly influenced his imagination during his childhood. The Spanish literary tradition, represented by Lope de Vega, Cervantes and the writers of picaresque stories, remained constant touchstones. Strongest of all was the distinctly Spanish nature of his Catholicism; he would retain its influence long after he renounced the teachings of the Church. At the University of Madrid his friendship with poet Federico Garcia Lorca and painter Salvador Dalí would play a major role in the avant-garde of the 1920s. It was during this period that he discovered the works of Sigmund Freud. His insight into the functioning of the unconscious and its relation to human sexuality would strongly inform the content of Buñuel’s films.   Read more ...