Let's start with the good: the movie was 15 minutes long.
And the bad: it makes no sense.
Okay....this is the deal. It's a surrealist film. Surrealism basically deals in the element of surprise and juxtaposition (I didn't get that on my own....looked it up on Wikipedia). And if you are familiar with the work of Salvador Dali you will know what I am talking about. He painted the one with the melting clocks...yeah...that one. So this is a movie version of a Dali painting.
The big shot of this movie is a man slicing a woman's eyeball with a straight razor. Um...yeah....just a little disturbing. But my guess is, that's what they were going for. Some image (or collection of images) that make you go...ACK!!!
Am I glad this is off the list? You betcha. Am I now an official cinema snob for seeing it? I just might be.
One word to describe 'Un Chien Andalou': Uh......
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