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Un Chien Andalou
Un chien andalou
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Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Paris, 1929. Sixteen minutes at the Studio des Ursulines: a razor and a woman, ants in a hand, a man dragging pianos and priests, a couple buried in sand. They wrote it from dreams they would not explain. Buñuel later said he carried stones in his pockets in case the first-night crowd charged. CNC and the Filmoteca restorations are the standard. A provocation with a running time, not a thesis.
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The razor. Buñuel and Dalí wrote from dreams and threw out anything that could be explained. Ants in a hand, pianos with priests and dead donkeys, a couple in sand. Sixteen minutes, stones in Buñuel's pockets in case the crowd charged. It has a running time and a first-night crowd. It does not have a meaning, and it says so.
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- EssayThe Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema: Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí's Un Chien Andalou (1929) — Open Culture (opens in a new tab)
- EssayFocus on... An Andalusian Dog, by Luis Buñuel — Centre Pompidou (opens in a new tab)
- EssayUn Chien Andalou movie review — Roger Ebert Great Movies (opens in a new tab)
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