16 YEARS EARLIER
No 354 – Un Chien Andalou Directors – Louis Buñuel & Salvador Dali Much like The Red Shoes and King Kong, this is a film which is rooted in my memories of MOMI . There they had a small display to Dali in film, with stills and props from both Vertigo and Un Chien Andalou . Ever since that point I have wanted to watch it with a vigour that was only strengthened when I found out that a bull’s eye is slit open. So I sat down to watch this epic piece of surrealist cinema. All 15 minutes of it! (Hell... the film is so old it is public domain - download it and watch it yourself ) As if to make sure I’m not just waiting for the eye slitting, the film begins with a razor being sharpened, a ladies head being held back and WHAM! Eye slitting, and yucky eye goo all over the shot. The rest of the film seems to follow a wooden box which appears in a number of events. There appear to be two reoccurring characters. A man and a woman. Although the character of the man appears in two guises, a ...