Synopsis

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 course of the film, we witness a close-up of a woman’s eye being slashed open with a razor; a man dragging a piano, two bishops, and a pair of rotting asses across a room; ants swarming around a hole in a man’s palm; and sundry severed limbs and gratuitous slayings.



Though this was originally a silent film, Buñuel later added a recorded score consisting of Liebestod from Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde and a number of popular tangos of the time. --Mubi

Starring Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dalí, Robert Hommet.

Groundbreaking surrealist masterpiece by cinematic grandmaster Buñuel (his first film), which he made in collaboration with Salvador Dalí.

A fantasy, impossible to describe, most notable for its very fluid style and arresting images. No film school can do without discussing this one. -- IMDb

Cast: Simone Mareuil .... Young girl (as Simonne Mareuil) Pierre Batcheff .... Man (as Pierre Batchef)

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