Fantasy · Thriller
French
1929 · Directed by Luis Buñuel · 17 min
A man and a woman drift through a Paris-set series of scenes that look like ordinary life and behave like a dream. Title cards promise time and place, then ignore their own rules. At seventeen minutes, it is a short, strange and deliberately unexplainable film.
Why it matters in cinema history
The key work of the surrealist movement in film, and the debut of a director who spent the next five decades turning dream logic and social satire into feature films.
Watch with intention
Treat the film as a dream recorded faithfully: ask what each image does to you, not what it means.
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