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Avant-garde Elite / Initial Audience
The audience, including Picasso and Breton's Surrealist group, gave the film a highly positive reception, embracing its innovative and shocking style.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Critical Consensus
7.6
IMDb
7.4
TMDB
Un Chien Andalou received an overwhelmingly positive reception from the Parisian avant-garde elite and Surrealist group, despite director Luis Buñuel's intention to provoke. While praised for its artistry, it also sparked controversy and calls for its banning.
The Cast
Simone Mareuil
Young Girl
Pierre Batcheff
Man
Luis Buñuel
Man in Prologue (uncredited)
Salvador Dalí
Seminarist (uncredited)
Robert Hommet
Young Man (uncredited)
M
Marval
Seminarist (uncredited)
Fano Messan
Hermaphrodite (uncredited)
Jaume Miravitlles
Fat Seminarist (uncredited)
PC
Pancho Cossío
Stroller (uncredited)
JE
Juan Esplandiu
Stroller (uncredited)
Trivia
The screenplay of "Un Chien Andalou" was based on two dreams experienced by its co-creators, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
During scriptwriting, Buñuel and Dalí's only rule was that no idea or image lending itself to a rational explanation would be accepted.
The film was entirely financed by director Luis Buñuel's mother.
For its notorious eyeball-slicing scene, director Luis Buñuel later confirmed he used the eye of a calf, not a goat, sheep, or donkey as widely reported.
After filming, Buñuel and Dalí ran out of money, forcing Buñuel to edit the film personally in his kitchen without any technical equipment.
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Contemporary Press
Despite the director's cynical view, portions of the press interpreted the film as possessing significant artistic beauty and poetic depth.
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