Un Chien Andalou (1929) or, Clouds Cut the Moon in Two

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A magnificent poster for Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou

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SPOILER Woman gets her eyeball slit open. 6 years after: The man wants the woman. The woman is run over. Ants run across the man's hand. A while later. At Spring.

Un Chien Andalou [An Andulusian Dog] is a stunning short film and a chief work in experimental and surrealist cinema, directed by Spanish master filmmaker Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel/El Ángel Exterminador m(1962)) and co-written by Buñuel and Surrealist master painter/artist Salvador Dalí.
The film, - which is only 16-21 minutes long, depending on the version, - is sublime for the poetic unreality it conjures up, and for the strangely recognizable, abstract perception of dreams and the subconscious that it recreates with its remarkable, subversive aesthetic and compositions, which get stored in the minds of its audiences whether they realize it or not.
The film was made on a tiny budget lend to Buñuel by his mother, and they ran out of money before post production, so that he had to cut the film together in their kitchen without any editing equipment besides a pair of scissors and glue. 
Both artists were surprised to see Un Chien Andalou succeed with the Parisian audience, whom they had expected to outrage into a violent mass-reaction. They were subsequently commissioned to make a sequel, which became L'Age d'Or (1930). The film lasts around 60 minutes, but the wealthy benefactors quickly withdrew it, when the Prefecture of the Paris Police banned it.
Another curio concerns the two main actors in Un Chien Andalou: They both ended their lives with suicide: Pierre Batcheff (Love in Morocco/Baroud (1933)) overdosed in 1932, and Simone Mareuil (Peach Skin/Peau de Pêche (1929)) set herself on fire and burned to death in a public square in 1954.

Here is the film, without English subtitles, however - so order it online, if you don't know French

Cost: Estimated around 100,000 franc
Box office: Unknown
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