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...looking for a better understanding of the dream images and surrealist constructs in the Luis Bunuel movies shown in the Harvard Film Archive last month (“Un Chien Andalou,” anyone?), the famed auteur’s autobiography might not be satisfying...
This is perhaps helpful to bear in mind considering the fact that the most well-known of the four films we’ve seen, “Un chien andalou,” also contains one of the most notoriously disgusting images in all of film...
...film is the companion piece to Buñuel’s somewhat better-known short Un Chien Andalou, notorious for its striking image of a woman having her eye cut open with a knife. The first film acted as a sketch of its director’s major themes; L’Age d’Or is the full portrait...
...protests to the contrary, one can see the same images appear again and again in his films, from "Chien andalou" to "That Obscure Object": insects; eyes being harmed; blind men as unscrupulous predators; sheep as serene creatures, roosters and hens as evil ones; and the most famous Buñuelian motif of all, erotically charged images of feet and shoes. Though he declared he maintained an emotional distance from the majority of his "obsessions," "Objects of Desire" does contain the admission that a personal fascination did indeed lie behind the inclusion in his films of various sequences showing the bared...
...photo from this era shows Buñuel in full nun-drag - making it no surprise that early on in "Chien andalou" (after the infamous eyeball- slitting scene, featuring Buñuel himself) our hero is seen bicycling through the streets wearing nun-like apparel. Later on, as the hero attempts to sexually attack the heroine, he is required to pull ropes connected to a variety of weighty impediments - including two reclining Marist brothers (one of whom is purportedly Dali). "L'Age d'or" followed soon after, but Buñuel was not able to return to his trademark imagery...