One of the best short films since the 1920s. The production team includes the genius and paranoid painter Salvador Dali and the master of Surrealist cinema Luis Buñuel.
This '16 minutes of mystery, monstrosity and brutality' has been transformed into an artistic surrealist film that is enough to make us feel uneasy, shudder, fear and madness. This is similar to Jacob Böhme's 15 Minutes of Mystical Experiences.
Not only is it a masterpiece, but its influence on later generations, including David Lynch, Jan Svankmajer and Guy Maddin, is immeasurable.
The scene in which a razor blade cuts through a human eyeball is, in fact, one of the greatest depictions in the history of black-and-white cinema. This kind of brutality and experimentation was later recreated by Kenneth Anger and cited by Pasolini.
The film had a profound influence on what is called Japanese animation and C-grade cinema, eroticism and grotesque nonsense.
The intense visual experience of Un chien andalou is more than enough to extenuate the sins of Luis Buñuel's almost-failed films that followed, and none of Buñuel's films surpass this one. However, the visual situation of Buñuel's later years has been enlightened to a kind of "sacerdotal" status.
Perhaps the best critics, unless they are very cynical, would list it as one of the best short films of all time.
This '16 minutes of mystery, monstrosity and brutality' has been transformed into an artistic surrealist film that is enough to make us feel uneasy, shudder, fear and madness. This is similar to Jacob Böhme's 15 Minutes of Mystical Experiences.
Not only is it a masterpiece, but its influence on later generations, including David Lynch, Jan Svankmajer and Guy Maddin, is immeasurable.
The scene in which a razor blade cuts through a human eyeball is, in fact, one of the greatest depictions in the history of black-and-white cinema. This kind of brutality and experimentation was later recreated by Kenneth Anger and cited by Pasolini.
The film had a profound influence on what is called Japanese animation and C-grade cinema, eroticism and grotesque nonsense.
The intense visual experience of Un chien andalou is more than enough to extenuate the sins of Luis Buñuel's almost-failed films that followed, and none of Buñuel's films surpass this one. However, the visual situation of Buñuel's later years has been enlightened to a kind of "sacerdotal" status.
Perhaps the best critics, unless they are very cynical, would list it as one of the best short films of all time.