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1928 |
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DRAMA
SILENT
FOREIGN
IMPORTANT
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France |
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BW |
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Er, there is no plot.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Director Luis Bunuel's first film, which he co-wrote with surrealist artist Salvador Dali, was one of the most shocking films of its time, but is now more of a curiosity. It is not hard to imagine the impact on 1928 audiences of the opening shot, which is of a razor cutting a woman's eye (pictured, if you can bear to look). The rest of this 17-minute film sums up much of what is best and worst about Bunuel: his wild, macabre imagination on the one hand, his infantile desire to shock on the other.
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"NOTHING in the film symbolises ANYTHING."
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