Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou French pronunciation j dalu , An Andalusian Dog is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buuel and artist Salvador Dal. It was Buuels first film and was initially released in 1929 with a limited showing at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months.

The film opens with a title card reading Once upon a time. A middleaged man Luis Buuel sharpens his razor at his balcony door and tests the razor on his thumb. He then opens the door, and idly fingers the razor while gazing at the moon, about to be engulfed by a thin cloud, from his balcony. There is a cut to a closeup of a young woman Simone Mareuil being held by the man as she calmly stares straight ahead. Another cut occurs to the moon being overcome by the cloud as the man slits the womans eye with the razor, and the vitreous humour spills out from it.The subsequent title card reads eight years later. A slim young man Pierre Batcheff bicycles down a calm urban street wearing what appears to be a nuns habit and a striped box with a strap around his neck. A cut occurs to the young woman from the first scene, who has been reading in a sparingly furnished upstairs apartment. She hears the young man approaching on his bicycle and casts aside the book she was reading revealing a reproduction of Vermeers The Lacemaker. She goes to the window and sees the young man lying on the curb, his bicycle on the ground. She emerges from the building and attempts to revive the young man. ........

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