37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Un Chien Andalou

Luis Buñuel

Image Un Chien Andalou
France
1929 Fiction 17 min
A man slices a young girl's eye. A cloud passes in front of the moon. In a room a man cannot hold back his desire for a young girl, and all around are a multitude of sundry objects...
With : Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Xaume Miratvilles
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí
Image : Albert Duverger
Music : Carl Bamberger (film sonorisé en 1960 à partir des disques utilisés lors des premières projections)
Editing : Luis Buñuel
Production : Luis Buñuel
Distribution: Grands Films Classiques
"The imagination is free; man is not", said Buñuel. Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog) is Buñuel's first film and remains today one of his greatest works. The clearly asserted surrealist vein of the film justifies all the director's fantasies. Traditional narrative logic is replaced by a different approach: automatic writing, here put into practice by the duo Dalí-Buñuel. The two creators received all the images that came into their minds without any form of censorship. "The imagination is one thing and life is another. For the imagination, no-one can teach me anything because I know everything, I hope everything. With life it is different. In reality I have never been a man of action, but in my imagination I have". (Luis Buñuel)