Un Chien Andalou (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #44 extract: Un Chien Andalou (1929)



I've completely lost count of how many times I have seen this, but am nonetheless always surprised by how... for lack of a better word, surreal, An Andalusian Dog actually is. 
I've always seen this as a failed romance and a film about deception or betrayal of some kind. The utter absence of morality and direction in this narrative, however, has me lost between knowing who is wrong and who we are to sympathise with; is the female a projection of a man's imagination, is this her nightmare, or is she her own person in a 'real' setting? Each of these questions leads to hugely different conclusions and radically different films. On this watch I suppose this relationship between subjective and omniscient perception struck me most. 20 more views and I may find something substantial to say.

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