Un Chien Andalou
Directed by	Luis Buñuel
Produced by	Luis Buñuel
Written by	Luis Buñuel Salvador Dalí
Starring	Pierre Batcheff Simone Mareuil Luis Buñuel Salvador Dalí Jaime Miravilles
Cinematography	Albert Duverger Jimmy Berliet
Editing by	Luis Buñuel
Release date(s)	June 6, 1929
Running time	16 min. Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 &ndash 29 July 1983 was a Spanish -born Filmmaker and naturalized Mexican who worked mainly in Mexico Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11 1904 &ndash January 23 1989 was a Spanish Catalan Surrealist Pierre Batcheff (1901 - 13 April 1932 was a French Actor, whose original name was Piotr Bacev (from Russia) born in Harbin, Simone Mareuil ( 25 August, 1903 &ndash 24 October, 1954) was a French actress Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 &ndash 29 July 1983 was a Spanish -born Filmmaker and naturalized Mexican who worked mainly in Mexico Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11 1904 &ndash January 23 1989 was a Spanish Catalan Surrealist Events 1508 - Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Country	France
Language	Silent French intertitles
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Un Chien Andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog) is a 16-minute^[1] surrealist film made in France in 1928 by Spanish writer/directors Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, and released in 1929 in Paris. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 &ndash 29 July 1983 was a Spanish -born Filmmaker and naturalized Mexican who worked mainly in Mexico Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11 1904 &ndash January 23 1989 was a Spanish Catalan Surrealist Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s. Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard It is also considered one of the most prominent films in Spanish Surrealism. It stars Simone Mareuil and Pierre Batcheff as the unnamed protagonists. Simone Mareuil ( 25 August, 1903 &ndash 24 October, 1954) was a French actress Pierre Batcheff (1901 - 13 April 1932 was a French Actor, whose original name was Piotr Bacev (from Russia) born in Harbin, The Protagonist or main character is the central figure of a story.

Synopsis

The opening scene, just before Buñuel (appears to) slit the woman's eye with a razor.

The film has no plot, in the conventional sense of the word. A narrative or story is a construct created in a suitable format (written spoken poetry prose images song Theater, or Dance) that describes a sequence of There are two central characters, an unnamed man and woman. The chronology of the film is disjointed: for example, it jumps from "once upon a time" to "eight years later" without the events changing. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes that attempt to shock the viewer. For the John Cale minimalist album see Dream Interpretation (Album Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to Dreams In many of the Sigmund Freud (ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt born Sigismund Shlomo Freud (May 6 1856 &ndash September 23 1939 was an Austrian Psychiatrist who founded Free association (Psychodynamic theory is a technique used in Psychology, devised by Sigmund Freud.

The film opens with a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor (actually a jump-cut to a cow's eye being slit). The man with the razor is played by Buñuel himself. In subsequent scenes, a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge; an androgynous blind woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with her cane before being knocked down by a car; the man fondles a woman, who resists him violently, and then he drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and two live priests (Dalí plays one of the priests in this scene); the man's father (played by the same actor as the man himself) arrives to punish him, but the man eventually shoots him with two books that abruptly turn to pistols; and the woman's armpit hair attaches itself to the man's face. Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek words ανήρ ( anér, meaning man and γυνή ( gyné, meaning woman that can refer to either of two Blindness is the condition of lacking Visual perception due to Physiological or Neurological factors The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that according to Judeo-Christian tradition were authored by God and given

At the end of the film, the woman walks out of the apartment building, and meets another man on the beach (also played by Dalí). They seem to be happy, but the final shot shows two figures (apparently Mareuil and Dalí) buried in sand, dead, and "consumed by swarms of flies" according to Buñuel's original script. However, this latter special effect was left out due to budget limitations. The illusions used in the Film, Television, Theater, or Entertainment industries to simulate the imagined events in a story are traditionally called

Salvador Dalí (right) and Jaime Miravilles (left) as priests in Un Chien Andalou

Soundtrack

Modern prints of the film feature a soundtrack: excerpts from Richard Wagner's Liebestod, the concert version of the finale to his opera Tristan und Isolde, and two Argentinian tangos. Tristan und Isolde ( Tristan and Isolde, or Tristan and Isolda) is an Opera, or Music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Argentine Tango is a Social dance and a Musical genre that originated in Argentina and moved to Uruguay and to the rest of the world later on These are the same music that Buñuel played on a phonograph during the original 1929 screening; he first added them to a sound print of the film in 1960. The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded Sound from the 1870s through the 1980s ^[2]

Analysis

In spite of varying interpretations, Buñuel made clear throughout his writings that, between Dalí and himself, the only rule for the writing of the script was that "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted. "^[3] Moreover, he stated that, "Nothing, in the film, symbolizes anything. "Symbolic" redirects here For other uses see Symbolism (disambiguation and Symbolic (disambiguation. The only method of investigation of the symbols would be, perhaps, psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a body of ideas developed by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud and his followers which is devoted to the study of human psychological functioning and behavior "^[4]

Film scholar Ken Dancyger has argued that Un chien andalou might be the genesis of the filmmaking style present in the modern music video. A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics ^[5] Roger Ebert has called it one of the first low budget independent films. An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of the Hollywood Studio system, a series of oligopolistic practices by several ^[6]

Trivia

• The eye actually being cut in the opening scene was that of a dead calf. Through intense lighting, Buñuel was able to make the furred face of the animal appear smooth, as human skin.
• Both of the leading actors eventually committed suicide: Batcheff in Paris in 1932 and Mareuil in Perigueux in 1954. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Périgueux ( (in Occitan: Peireguers or Periguers) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine
• Seru Giran, a great notorious argentinian band has a song called Perro Andaluz.
• This film was referred to in the song about Buñuel, "Debaser", by the band Pixies. " Debaser " is a song by the American Alternative rock band Pixies, and is the first song on their 1989 album Doolittle. Pixies are an American Alternative rock band formed in Boston Massachusetts in 1986
• This film featured in some live performances by David Bowie. David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger.
• Buñuel and Dalí carried sacks of rocks in their pockets on opening night, expecting a negative response from the audience. They were disappointed when the audience enjoyed the film.

Notes

References

• Buñuel, Luis; Salvador Dalí (1968). Classic Film Scripts: L'Age d'Or and Un Chien Andalou, Marianne Alexandre (trans. ), New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-85647-079-1.  

External links

• Download or watch Un chien andalou at UbuWeb
• Un chien andalou at the Internet Movie Database
• Roger Ebert's review