Director: Luis Bunuel
Year: 1929
Country: France
Language: Silent
Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired
Length: 17 mins
Format: PAL
Colour: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: 15
Alternate Title: An Andalusian Dog

Synopsis

Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or, two landmark films in the history of cinema, are presented together in this special DVD box-set, complete with a 30-page booklet. This is the first time that L'Age d'Or has ever been released on DVD, anywhere in the world.

Luis Bunuel's legendary first film, Un Chien Andalou written with Salvador Dali, created a scandal at its premiere and its startling eye-slicing opening sequence has continued to shock viewers ever since. Despite Bunuel and Dali's energetic rejections of any rational meaning in the film, Un Chien Andalou is an exploration of desire and the obstacles in the path of instinctual passion, equally indebted to Surrealism and Freud.

The accompanying 30-page booklet includes notes on both films by Robert Short, author of The Age of Gold: Surrealist Cinema (Creation Books, 2003), biographies, selected bibliography, notes on the making of Un Chien Andalou by Luis Bunuel and Manifesto of the Surrealists concerning L'Age d'Or by The Surrealist Group.

Special Features

- Filmed introduction by art historian and author Robert Short.
- Commentary for each film by Robert Short.
- A Proposito de Bunuel (2000, 98 mins) – a documentary on Luis Bunuel.