Monday, August 5, 2013

1929 Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou

Director:  Luis Buñuel


Cast:  Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil


Country: FRANCE

Notes:  Short, surrealist film written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí


Storyline:  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. Written by Ryan T. Casey <RTCasey@mn.uswest.net>

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