Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Jaime Miravilles
Fledging director Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali create this ultimate surrealist film, which is essentially a barrage of striking and irrational images designed to shock and provoke. During the... read more 
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Release Date: June 6, 1929
DVD Release Date: December 28, 2004
Stats: 1,597 reviews
"BWAAAHHHH!" -Hank Hill. That's what I said on the infamous eye scene.
Another experimental short. "What the hell?" is what you're gonna say throughout its 20 minutes. What "Un Chien Andalou" offers is a high amount of shock-value and stand-alone scenes that are simply awe-inspi... read more
Brief, silent surrealism known infamously for only one image: a razor slicing open an eye. Though questionable and disturbing, this is one of the only enjoyable silent films I have seen. Salvador Dali's artistic ability makes the film great, if only 16 minutes long.
I just kept saying out loud, over and over, "What the hell am I watching?" Sure, it made me think more than many longer and plot filled movies have, but overall I was unnerved from the strange, dreamlike events that transpired.
Disturbingly brilliant. This movie takes the idea that film is presented like a dream, and make a film which is literally based on the film maker's dreams (the sleeping kind, that is.). You have to see it to believe it. If you like experimental movies, you'll love this.
I can very clearly see how this short film inspired David Lynch throughout his career, and I appreciate the influence it has had on scores of other brilliant film-makers. HOWEVER, I was not moved or jarred in the slightest. Perhaps I am defective in some essential way, or perhaps... read more
Um... I'm sure the fact that I saw this at 4:30 in the morning, was in not in any mind of mood for interpretation and just wanted to go to bed play into this review, but... so what? I can appreciate that Un Chien Andalou was groundbreaking for its time (even if it paved the way f... read more
Did people say "WTF" in 1929?
Dali and Buñuel set out to defy convention and raise eyebrows. They succeeded. Even today, more than eighty years later, this film gives us a lot to think about.
The most demented, violent and explicit film of the silent era. It touches on dozens upon dozens of taboo and controversial topics while also being just flat out bizarre. I think the main reason it is so great is the fact that it is so original and ahead of its time. You'll never... read more
Beautifully disturbing, surreal art. Some fantastic imagery that is yet to be replicated since. It's harsh, disturbing, confusing and utterly compelling. After all the Saw's and Hostels, nothing can match the eye-slitting for "What the fuck" grossness. Yet, it's combination with ... read more
Pure celluloid art! Dali & Bunuel collaborate to create one of cinemas greatest experimental films. The scene with the eye ball and the moon is pure brilliance!
Luis Buñuel began his movie career with the most notorious opening sequence in movie history. Full Review
A movie like this is a tonic. It assaults old and unconscious habits of moviegoing. Full Review
Decades later, Bunuel's first feature still is the seminal surrealist film, a powerful assemblage of shocking images aimed to provoke and irritate. Full Review
With irreverent abandon the maverick artists provoke the audience with a movie that celebrates film's adaptive quality at exposing the sub-conscious mind. "Un Chien Andalou" is 17-minutes of sheer cin... Full Review
It was released in 1929, but it still has the power to make audiences cringe today and it may remain the most notorious 16 minutes of film ever made. Full Review
Arguably the most notorious 16 minutes of film ever made, Un Chien andalou is still cinema's most potent manifesto of the irrational and the surreal. Full Review
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou is absolutely essential viewing for anyone seriously interested in cinema. Full Review
an introduction to the power of the irrational and to the concept that art could exist for its own sake Full Review
It may be short, it may even be dated, but this unnerving slice of surrealist psychedelia is the reason we all dream in black and white. Full Review
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