A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and ... Read allA surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Germaine Noizet
- Marquise of X
- (as Mme Noizet)
Bonaventura Ibáñez
- Marquis of X
- (as Ibanez)
Jean Aurenche
- Bandit
- (uncredited)
Jacques B. Brunius
- Passer-by in the Street
- (uncredited)
Juan Castañe
- Bandit
- (uncredited)
Pancho Cossío
- Lame Bandit
- (uncredited)
Juan Esplandiu
- Bandit
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí had effectively fallen out by the time the film went into production to the extent that Dali refused to have anything to do with the actual making of the film. On the first day of shooting, Buñuel chased Dalí off the set with a hammer.
- Quotes
Young Girl: I have waited for a long time. What joy to have our children murdered!
- Alternate versionsThis film was published in Italy in an DVD anthology entitled "Un Chien Andalou", distributed by DNA Srl. The film has been re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin . This version is also available in streaming on some platforms.
- SoundtracksAve Verum Corpus K. 618
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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At least sixty years ahead of its time. This collection of surreal scenes satirising every possible social value you can think of and revelling in anything considered by the aristocrats to be vulgar was made with a delicious sense for black comedy, a taste for which would not become socially acceptable for sixty years. This movie caused riots on its first release in 1930, and was banned for forty years. If you see this on the program to be shown at an art gallery near you, like i did, you won't regret seeing it. Think of it as Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel sticking their finger up at everything everyone else takes seriously, and laughing at their being offended. Seventy years later, the art gallery audience i was with were laughing along with Bunuel and Dali. This is about the most modern feeling thing you'll see from early cinema. I'll give you a sample: a couple are such nymphomaniacs, whenever they see each other, they can't stop from leaping on each other and writhing on the ground together. At one point in the movie, they are kissing, and all of a sudden he sees the foot of a statue behind her and is distracted by its beauty. He becomes dazed and zoned on the foot. She pulls away from him, tries to talk to him, he holds his hand up to her face as if to say: "hang on, just give me a minute." Then he feels compelled to leave her. Left on her own, mourning her momentary separation from her lustful partner, she begins sucking on the toes of the statue, as she was sucking on the fingers of her love a few scenes before. Camera cuts to a close-up of the statue's face, as if to check its reaction. The entire audience broke up at this. It was all too much. An absolute riot which can only be appreciated today as taking the p*ss out of every form of conservatism you can imagine.
WARNING= it is at times disturbing. If you are at all feint-hearted, and can not separate movies from reality, especially surrealist movies from reality, then stay away.
WARNING= it is at times disturbing. If you are at all feint-hearted, and can not separate movies from reality, especially surrealist movies from reality, then stay away.
- Ben_Cheshire
- Feb 28, 2004
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- The Golden Age
- Filming locations
- Cabo de Creus, Girona, Catalonia, Spain(opening sequence - landscape)
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $32,712
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,940
- Feb 1, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $32,712
- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
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