Un Chien Andalou (2 disc) - dvd

The opening sequence of Bunuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou is one of the most shocking scenes in cinema history. A masterpiece of surreal filmmaking, this seventeen minute classic is a remarkable synthesis of montage, emulating the logic of a dream. Bunuel has edited together seemingly unrelated imagery as visual non sequitur, making pointed satire of his favourite targets: the Catholic Church, bourgeois culture and Fascism. Bunuel would say, “Religious education and surrealism have marked me for life.” Some say this film is loaded with meaning but it also has a delicious sense of humour, peculiar to the surrealists.
2 Disc set includes:
Doco on Luis Bunuel, doco on Salvador Dali plus Bunuel's surrealistic documentary portrait Las Hurdes (1933), a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.