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In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye--to grab the audience's att...( read more 
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MCT:August 28, 2008either i don't understand surrealism, or maybe this is not SO great. i felt the senselessness of the whole work, and i took notice of the sense there might be in the single images, but nothing more. if that's all, then i didn't enjoy it so much.
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MCT:July 30, 2008ive seen parts of the original movie made by the artist Salvador Dali and it looked quite interesting.. i dunno if the remake is better... (probably not lol)
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MCT:June 21, 2008I think nothing could be actually said about this movie. It's one of the best movies ever........ Nop, this movie can only be seen and felt.........
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MCT:June 1, 2008
Completely dreamlike and irrational short film featuring the infamous eyeball slitting scene. Enormously important historical document, and at only 17 minutes it never grows tiresome; everyone with even a passing interest in the art of film should take time out to see this.
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MCT:April 15, 2008
Really well directed, but that eye thing is totally gross and there's not really depth to it, because it's a short film based on expression.
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MCT:April 8, 2008Bunuel and Dali's surrealist mindfuck is a wonderful gem of the avant garde... a bizarre and disturbing work from 1929, before the two artist's partnership went south. It's a little too short to warrant some sort of dramatic write up. It is to be taken as it is; a prime example of French surrealist cinema during its heyday, created as an artistic statement, largely to surprise, shock, and sicken the typical art crowd of the time. The film is diegetically bizarre, follows no constant of time or place, and treats its own plot as a tinker toy, but its wonderfully strange and beautiful in its oddities. Sixteen minutes of pure mindfuck glory.
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MCT:March 30, 2008
Say this in Avant-Garde film class--creepy but in a realistic way like a dream only in black and white...I dream in color...
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MCT:March 25, 2008Eyes, ants, armpits, breasts, butt, hands, handguns, priests, pianos, dead donkeys and death's head moths.
It carries themes of life, death, lust and love and continues to influence dark and disturbing images of filmmakers and movie-goers alike. All of this in 17 minutes.
Now the Pixies' song Debaser makes a little sense...a little.
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MCT:March 23, 2008
A surreal experience and a very bold one for its time. There's not much of a story to get other than Luis Buñel and Salvador Dali wanting to take their dreams into the screen. Eerie and hypnotising.
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MCT:March 16, 2008
I love this film! Everything happens just how you want it to... the actors are amazing, you grasp the emotion and feelings of the situations perfectly even though they make non sense at all. I watched this on acid orginally, thinking it was the best thing ever. I've got to say after watching it sober.... it wasn't quite as enthralling :P However, still fantastic.
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MCT:March 2, 2008Experimental and edgy to say the least. If you're a fan of Salvador Dali's artwork, wait until you see it move!
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MCT:February 23, 2008
my second favourite cult film after eraserhead. this one is a french mindfuck. and its from the 20's. more violence and nudity than youll find in a lot of movies today.
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MCT:February 9, 2008
Yeah, I guess eventually I had to watch this. It clearly inspired a lot of things, like the skull moth from The Silence of the Lambs and the little The Cheats coming out of Strong Sad's hands in TMBG's "Experimental Film" video. Dave Stewart even cites it as an inspiration for the "Sweet Dreams" video. Based on that, I'll give it points for historical significance and uniqueness, but I'm not one of those assholes who'll pretend to understand it.
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MCT:February 4, 2008
Interesantes minutos que nos meten al subconsciente (los sueños) de Dali y Buñuel, agregandole ciertas imagenes representando sentimientos de frustracion hacia la sociedad. Las imagenes y la musica quedan automaticamente registradas en la mente, de una manera divertida y a la vez con miedo. En base a la comedia y la musica alegre, el transcurso de "la historia" es muy oscuro. Por otra parte, siento que es un filme mas personal de los creadores al estar creando sus sueños; por lo que para nosotros, puede llegar a ser un entretenimiento o un filme de 15 minutos que se podría despedazar segundo por segundo.
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MCT:January 30, 2008
Surrealista corto, la primera incursion de buñuel en el mundo del cine. Tan extraña como abiertamente original. Mejor que Erasehead de David Lynch. clasico imprescindinle
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MCT:January 15, 2008
One of the masterpieces from surrealism. The movie itself is strong, the reactions that caused when it was projected first time were outstanding.
Besaides it got the team up of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí both geniuses in their fields. -
MCT:December 21, 2007
The summum of the surrealism. I this flm that Bu#el wrote together. It was bombed by the fascist, and he remain a genious, of curse, but nevr wnt THAT crazy again. Is the bible of the art films.
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Some might say one of the best foreign films ever made. I don't know about that but it's got some character that's for eff'n sure.
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MCT:December 3, 2007
Buñuel & Dali. Primeiro filme surrealista, cheio de ótimas imagens. É como dentro de um sonho, onde a incoerência é natural.
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MCT:November 14, 2007
I think this actually explains some of Dali's repressed sexual themes in some of his paintings. But then again, i could be completely off about this.
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MCT:October 24, 2007Defiantly a film for surrealist fans, I found the film very confusing and strange but it grasped me as I tried to work out what was happening and that's what makes this film clever. The cutting of the eye was probably my favourite part even though it was disgusting.
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MCT:September 16, 2007
Dicen que fué un sueño de Dalí, y que a don Luis se le ocurrió ponerlo en la pantalla, dicen que simplemente es una catarata de imágenes que dan rienda suelta a la corriente surrealista de la cual ambos eran miembros.
Se dirán muchas cosas de este cortometraje, sin embargo aún no se encuentra una explicación que satisfaga a la mayoría, y tal vez nunca la haya.
El cine tranformado por medio de secuencias, un grito que Buñuel hace al mundo amenazando con su talento y preparando a todos para lo que sería capaz el genio.
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MCT:September 14, 2007
More along the lines of an experiment in aesthetics rather than an ingrown example of cinema, Bunuel's innovative piece of surrealism is a film to admire for it's pioneering steps in the conversion of pictures to moving imagery. The film feels like the dabbings of a paintbrush in a seemingly randomised portrait - cohesive elements of film and a leveled rythm are distinguished immediately as we are thrust into this strange world, alternating between memorable imagery and incongruous concepts.
From beginning to end, Un Chien Andalou is filled with memorable imagery brought upon through an artist's insight into the cinematographic process. Dali's inflictions are felt throughout the iconic images of the eye splitting, the ant-ridden hand clutching through a door space, and the donkey corpse in the piano. The film never makes sense, but like all post-modernistic art - it doesn't need to. Instead, we are meant to sit and admire the visual implications of the film, rather than delve into it's non-existent philosophies.
However, what truly pushes this short film further into the minds of film enthusiast's comes through it's stunning editing, where techniques seem to be at a first here. The film's claims to cinematography and editing alone make the film canonical for lovers of the medium.
A technical masterpiece with translucent traditional film needs, Un Chien Andalou is a visual masterpiece in it's own right. The experiment pays off in the sense of pioneering film methods and burning images into the minds of the audience.
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