Un Chien Andalou and L’age D’or

Un Chien Andalou:
In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open–juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obscuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye–to grab the audience’s attention. The French phrase “ants in the palms,” (which means that someone is “itching” to kill) is shown literally. A man pulls a piano along with the tablets of the Ten Commandments and a dead donkey towards the woman he’s itching to kill. A shot of differently striped objects is repeatedly used to connect scenes.

L’age D’or:
Bunuel’s first feature has more of a plot than Un Chien Andalou, but it’s still a pure Surrealist film, so this is only a vague outline. A man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, the Church and bourgeois society.

Special Formula:Un Chien Andalou:
1929, 17’, silent film by Sharif Sehnaoui and Stéphane Rives (saxophone soprano)

L’age D’or:
60’, 1930, French with no subtitles

Ticket price: 5,000 L.L