Good concept, poorly executed.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

There are some films whose cultural and cinematographic value is much more related to the people involved in it than to their quality or interest as "story told". This movie is one of them. Its so repulsive and incomprehensible that only Buñuel and Dalí would be able to make it worthy of some appreciation. It often recalls some 1970s trash films, and short films made by pseudo-intellectuals, which still pollute the route of European film festivals. Thus, this film is very difficult to swallow, even by confessed connoisseurs of surrealism. Having no plot, it consists of a succession of images, often graphically provocative, highly inadvisable to sensitive people. Just that. Personally, I often compare Buñuel to Edd Wood, but maybe the latter can be even better that the Spanish director, in the sense that he, at least, managed to make some funny films.

Some believe that horror lies in the unknown: the monsters, ghosts, werewolves, aliens and psychopaths of our imaginations, but others realise that true horror lies in what we do know, what we're forced to know: the everyday repressive and oppressive sexual and social atmosphere of normal daily life; the smothering banality of a repetitive existence.Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí were anything but banal. Their masterpiece of Freudian surrealism, 'Un Chien Andalou' presents for your enjoyment the bizarre world of 'sex' -- lust versus fear; boredom versus insanity; guilt versus freedom; the male versus the female. Being a sexual male is a terrifying, oppressive, confusing and painful experience; being a sexual woman is even more so. 'Un Chien Andalou' successfully painted this age-old picture in a daring new language.Whether a grinning male watches from his window as an androgynous woman with a severed hand in a box is mowed down by a car, or a woman shuts her aggressively advancing partner's hand in the door to trap him (a hand which is bleeding ants, stigmata-style), or a man is chastised for his lust by a father-figure (who is revealed as the woman's new lover and is shot to death by the original) -- or whether, infamously and iconically, a hand (Buñuel's, in a brief cameo) slashes a woman's eyeball from its socket (is the razor the penis and the eyeball the hymen?), this film's tone is one of extreme sexual anxiety. It's the same unbearable universe of queasy, uncomfortable dream logic angst that David Lynch borrowed from Buñuel and turned up to ten for his horrifying and often misunderstood 'Eraserhead', almost half a century later. But it's no more weird, really, than a cloud passing by the moon. But it's as violent as a razorblade to the eye.Luis Buñuel once said, "If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply, 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams'." It's a shame that this unforgettable dream of his lasts for only seventeen minutes.

Since I'm going through the list of the 25 Dangerous films that Premiere magazine has voted on, I decided to give this movie a go and see how dangerous it is. By god at the beginning, I was absolutely grossed out by the man cutting off the woman's eye and I really felt sick looking at it since I thought it was a real human eye. Thankfully, after watching the movie and looking through its trivia through here, I found out that it was just a cows eye. Even though poor cow at the same time, I hope it didn't die just for this short film!It was too bad that I don't understand fluent french and that there was no film online that could support English subtitles, I would've liked to have known what the story was about really. Although at least I know what sorta was going on with the characters, especially since the short film really looked like a Charlie Chaplin movie but in a thriller version. Seriously, it was just funny even if it looked bad! Although I didn't like the scene where the man was trying to rape the woman, it made me feel really cringy. Its hard to believe those times accepted that kind of messing about and I can say, thank Christ its not acceptable in today's society!Good short film, I give it 8/10 for its oddness..

In the late 1920's, surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel collaborated on this fabulously bizarre short film.Following what barely represents a narrative, "Un chien anadolou" feels like a dream or, rather, a nightmare, for it manages to be quite terrifying in places. It's definitely daring for its day , featuring memorably horrifying images such as ants crawling from a man's hand, two dead donkeys lying on two moving pianos, and, what is perhaps the most well known of all, the infamous eye splitting sequence. This was certainly some pretty racy stuff back in its day, and today that eyeball splitting still manages to disturb and make most people cringe and wonder how they managed to get that shot.The editing is very well done, and the whole film manages to be very artistic. As I said, it is like some sort of filmed nightmare, comparable to "Eraserhead", in which nothing really makes sense most of the time and each shot gets more and more strange and unsettling. There's also a lot of really interesting special effects and camera tricks used throughout the film, making it a visual masterpiece for the time.I, personally, am not really pretentious and into all sorts of modern art that is really just dumb but tries to come across as genius because reason. Trust me, I'm not the type of guy that stares at a painting that's just a single color yellow and tries to interpret the meaning because it's "really deep and against the system, man!", but surrealism is a form of art that I can really get into. A lot of the time, surrealism doesn't need to make sense, it just is, and that's the beauty of it. It's all really weird and out there, just like this film."Un chien andalou" isn't logical or jam packed with meaning, it just simply is, and what it is is great.