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Luis Buñuel’s Surrealist Erotica Classic BELLE DE JOUR (1967) w/ UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929)
UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929)
“A mysterious, free-associating accumulation of images of violence, beauty and absurdity that confounded those who saw it then and confounds viewers still.” -The Age
One of the seminal Surrealist films was the result of close collaboration between filmmaker Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dalí, who worked together closely on the script. According to Buñuel, the short film is the meeting of two dreams: Dalí’s—a hand covered in ants—and his own—a knife slicing an eye. Written in less than a week, the script following a simple rule: not to incorporate any image or idea for which the viewer could come up with a rational, psychological or cultural explanation. The result is a succession of dreamlike sequences that violate conventional expectations and retain their ability to shock audiences nearly a century later.
BELLE DE JOUR (1967)
“It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best. That’s because it understands eroticism from the inside-out–understands how it exists not in sweat and skin, but in the imagination.” -Roger Ebert
Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and its viewers’), as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions. Fantasy and reality commingle in this burst of cinematic transgression, which was one of Buñuel’s biggest hits.
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