Un chien andalou (1929)

Director:

Luis Buñuel

Writers:

Salvador Dalí (screenplay) and
Luis Buñuel (screenplay)

Release Date:

6 June 1929 (France)

Genre:

Short | Fantasy

Plot:

In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring...

Plot Keywords:

Ants | Experimental | Territory Name In Title | Experimental Film | Animal In Title

Cast

Simone Mareuil	...	Young girl (as Simonne Mareuil)
Pierre Batcheff	...	Man (as Pierre Batchef)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Luis Buñuel	...	Man in Prolog (uncredited)
Salvador Dalí	...	Seminarist (uncredited)
Robert Hommet	...	Young Man (uncredited)
Marval	...	Seminarist (uncredited)
Fano Messan	...	Hermaphrodite (uncredited)
Jaume Miravitlles	...	Fat Seminarist (uncredited)

Directed by
Luis Buñuel		(as Louis Bunuel)

Writing credits
Salvador Dalí		(screenplay) (as Salvador Dali) and
Luis Buñuel		(screenplay) (as Louis Bunuel)

Produced by
Luis Buñuel	....	producer

Cinematography by
Albert Duverger		(as Duverger)
Jimmy Berliet		(uncredited)

Film Editing by
Luis Buñuel

Art Direction by
Pierre Schild		(uncredited)

Music Department
Carl Bamberger	....	conductor (1960 sonorized version)

Distributors

• www.Moviebear.tv (2005) (worldwide) (internet)
• Art House Video (Greece)
• Contemporary Films (1980) (UK) (all media)
• Kino Video (2001) (USA) (VHS)
• Large Door Video (Australia) (VHS)
• Moskwood Media (19??) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Stomp Visual (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• Video Yesteryear

Also Known As:

An Andalusian Dog (USA)
Perro andaluz, Un (Argentina) (Chile) (Spain) [es]
Andalusialainen koira (Finland) [fi]
Andalusischer Hund, Ein (Germany) [de]
Andalusiska Hunden, Den (Sweden) [sv]
Andalusiske hund, Den (Denmark) [da]
Pies andaluzyjski (Poland) [pl]
Um Cão Andaluz (Portugal) [pt]
Un chien andalou (Italy) [it]

Runtime:

16 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Certification:

Finland:K-16 (1962) (cut) | Singapore:NC-16 | Finland:(Banned) (1962) (uncut) | Finland:K-16 (1977) (uncut) | Finland:(Banned) (1956 ) (uncut) | Argentina:16 | UK:15 (video rating) (1994) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France

Trivia:

During the bicycle scene, the woman who is sitting on a chair, reading, throws the book aside. The image it shows when it lays open is a reproduction of a painting by Vermeer. Vermeer was a Dutch painter greatly admired by Salvador Dalí, and whom Dalí referenced often in his own paintings.

Movie Connections:

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Soundtrack:

Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod

Holy Eyeball Slicing, Batman!

"Sitting comfortably in a dark room, dazzled by the light and the movement which exert a quasi-hypnotic power... fascinated by the interest of human faces and the rapid changes of place, [a] cultivated individual placidly accepts the most appalling themes...and all this naturally sanctioned by habitual morality, government, and international censorship, religion, dominated by good taste and enlivened by white humor and other prosaic imperatives of reality." - Luis Bunuel

Un Chien Andalou exists to shock the viewer of this stupor that Bunuel elucidates above. Freudian dream imagery, amorphous space/time, and absurdist humor combine in this drawn out mating ritual between a confused cyclist and the female he pursues. May be the most inventive fifteen minutes of film anywhere.