Un Chien Andalou / Land Without Bread
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• Subtitled
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Video Release : 09 January, 2001 |
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Somewhat interesting, if dated - and polemical
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This tape includes two very different pieces from BuA uel (directed at not too distant time from each other, the late 1920s and the early 1930s). The first is Un Chien Andalou, which is credited as being codirected by Salvador Dali. This surreal short must have been terribly shocking when it was made, but I think that more than 75 years later, a lot of its impact has softened, perhaps because its surreal tricks have appeared in a lot of later movies.
The second piece is flawed too, though at least is more interesting - and I think more polemical, also. It's a 30 minute documentary about life in one of Spain's poorest regions. What I find wrong about this movie is that while BuA uel gleefully shows us the poverty and ignorance of the people living there, he doesn't have much clues (and doesn't seem to care much) of how to solve this. Now, 70 years later, Spain is much richer than it was then. And if poverty receded in Spain it was not exactly with the sort of leftism that BuA uel favored, but with Western European style capitalism. Shockingly, in one scene, the narrator chides that in school, children are taught the value of Pi. Teaching math to poor people, the horror!. BuA uel shortsightedness is at its most glaring here, not realizing that it is access to the latest knowledge and technology what will help the poor overcome their situation.
All in all, two pieces that have not aged well. |
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