Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff
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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DVD Release Date: December 28, 2004
Stats: 1,260 reviews
Beautifully disturbing, surreal art. Some fantastic imagery that is yet to be replicated since. It's harsh, disturbing, confusing and utterly compelling. After all the Saw's and Hostels, nothing can match the eye-slitting for "What the fuck" grossness. Yet, it's combination with ...( read more)
Pure celluloid art! Dali & Bunuel collaborate to create one of cinemas greatest experimental films. The scene with the eye ball and the moon is pure brilliance!
This sixteen-minute cinematic taste of surrealism is definitely an escape from conventional motion picture. In an irrational string of events, verristic surrealists Dali and Bunuel present eerie images, usually read as symbolisms, that are bound to leave its viewers thirsting for...( read more)
As with any other human being, the first time I watched An Andalusian Dog it haunted me. It was haunting not in a sense of horror or a thought-provoking way, but it introduced me to an area of cinema that did not exist in my perception earlier. Prior to this film my only e...( read more)
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 Enormously important historical document, and at only 17 minutes it never grows tiresome; everyone with even a passing interest in the art of film should take time out to see this.
Surrealism in film has become a widely-accepted trend, and various artists love to use it to portray difficult emotions that have no logical interpretation on screen and on the canvas. But it all started waaaay back in 1929 with a short film directed by aspiring director Luis Buñ...( read more)
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