November 24, 2009

Un Chien Andalou


Un Chien Andalou (1929) is a sixteen minutes independent movie directed by Luis Bunuel and surrealist artist Salvador Dali.


"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 attention. The French phrase "ants in the palms," (which means that someone is "itching" to kill) is shown literally. A man pulls a piano along with the tablets of the Ten Commandments and a dead donkey towards the woman he's itching to kill. A shot of differently striped objects is repeatedly used to connect scenes" (Ryan T. Casey)


Links
Un Chien Andalou Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVbTEVfLksU

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