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Un Chien Andalou remains a startling artifact suggesting ways in which film can express the subconscious. The result of Luis Bunuel's collaboration with Salvador Dali, the 17-minute, 1929 film was designed expressly to shock and provoke. Opening with the canonical eyeball-slashing sequence and divided into baffling "chapters", this is a work of art obsessed with religion, lust, decay, violence, and death. Un Chien Andalou isn't simply one of the great works of the surrealist movement, but a segment of cinematic DNA that irrevocably altered the aesthetics of film. In its tangled corridors you find the seeds to the disappearing-mouth bit in The Matrix, the carcasses strewn through Peter Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts and pretty much the entire oeuvre of David Lynch. --Ryan Boudinot
Product Reviews
 (4 stars) - un chien andalou
if you like art and old exploitation films you will like this movie. not that it is an exploitation film but it has that feel. its old and the only way you are going to see it is if you buy it. its a must for collectors.
(4 stars) - Classic of Madness
In a post-Hostel (Director's Cut) world this work still shocks with simplistic depicting of mutilation, murdering, suicide presented as entertainment features.
Itself, no much links between filmed segments might be traced also joint by the same artists (characters?) participating.
To a reviewer, it looks nowadays like Tower Eiffel placed besides the contemporary New York mirror-clad South Gate Central Park buildings.
Respectful grounding classic of genre.
(4 stars) - More Is Less and More
How does a company justify charging $15 for the DVD edition of a seventeen-minute short film, regardless of whether the movie in question is the quintessence of cinematic surrealism and one of the most influential films of all time? Well, they pad it with whatever supplemental material they can find and hope for the best.
No kidding, this disc has a scene selection menu for those who feel the need to navigate the film's five chapters.
Footage from Buñuel's movies and an interview with his son, Juan-Luis, comprise the substance of two short featurettes. In the first of these, he discusses his father's life, career and death in some small detail; in the second, he provides details about the ugly, acrimonious split between Buñuel and Dalí. The latter of these benefits from Buñuel's objective perspective of Dalí's erratic and cruel behavior, if only because it's rude to judge the demented, regardless of how inspired they are.
The commentary track is voiced by Stephen Barber, who writes books of varying quality about pivotal avant-garde figures. Barber should restrict his activities to the textual medium, because this is, without any doubt in my mind whatsoever, the single worst commentary track that I've heard, and I've listened to dozens of these. Barber's commentary is dull, halting and monotonous, and he has nothing profound or interesting to say about either the film or the surrealist movement.
The last of the disc's features is certainly the most ponderous: two surreal still images and a textual statement about "Un Chien Andalou" by illustrator/photographer/filmmaker Dave McKean. All that I can type of this is that "MirrorMask," McKean's collaboration with Neil Gaiman, is quite a lot of fun and certainly worth seeing, and that this portion of the DVD isn't interesting at all.
What "Un Chien Andalou" really needs is to be compiled on a $1 budget DVD edition with one or two other vintage avant-garde movies in the public domain and distributed via dollar stores and dedicated video retailers alike. This would make one of the greatest classics of film history accessible to a wide audience.
 (1 stars) - What??
It seems like this film is not my cup of tea, or maybe I'm missing something, am I? I know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this beholder couldn't find any beauty in this film. I try to be open minded when it comes to art, but I also think that there's a fine line between art and rubbish, and to me this film classifies as the latter one.
The reviewers can talk as much as they want about surrealism and Freudian stuff, but to me Un Chien Andalou is nothing but a pile of nonsense, a complete waste of my time. It lasts only 17 minutes, just as well! I loved Bunuel's Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie and that's the reason why I picked this film. I should have known better, Salvador Dali is part of it.
 (5 stars) - Added features interview makes this interesting
Chien Andalou is a classic Surrealist video from 1929 put together by Luis Bunuel and Salvator Dali. It is only about 20 minutes long but is quite interesting. I have heard about this film all my life but have finally gotten around to watching it (4 times). It is on streaming video on the Internet but I found the DVD of Chien Andalou very good because Bunuel's son does a long commentary added feature on his father, the film and Dali that was very interesting. He says that Surrealism is the basis of all advertising because of its attempt to show you the everyday in a way that pulls you out of normal consciousness (surreal) and see it as new, thereby jogging your brain and making the image last. He also talks a lot about his dad and Dali and Garcia Lorca as three college friends who went on to fame and how they got along.
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