On September 30th, Cinémathèque française’s Buñuel retrospective was the first show, linking his first three films: "An Andalu Dog" in 1929, "Golden Age" in 1930 and "No Food" in 1933. land". They are the coolest surrealist short film in film history, Buñuel's first feature film and his only documentary. Commenting on Buñuel’s activity itself is basically similar to surrealist creation. Frédéric, Director of Cinémathèque Bonnaud probably finished it like this today: "...I saw a lot of young faces, who is the first time to watch "An Andalu Dog" tonight? (About half of the people raise their hands) Who is the first time to watch "Golden" Time? (About half of the people raise their hands) Who is the first time to watch "A Land Without Grain"? (More people raise their hands, including me)... It’s more than I thought. Then I will let the movie showers After playing each one in half a minute, put down another one, so that you will lessen the feeling of being critically beaten by your mind... These are three completely different masterpieces, but you will surely find the same thing. Buñuel’s work is definitely not. As abstract and incomprehensible as some people say, you will see next that he is a very direct director. There are no symbols in his works, but a very clear story line. For example, "An Andalu Dog" is a pair Lovers are separating, and "Golden Age" is just the opposite. It is a pair of lovers who want to stick together all the time, so they have to overcome many obstacles in order to be together. "Golden Age" brought a great scandal when it was released. The Right Alliance went to the theater to smash the scene-they read it right, Buñuel wanted to show the various forces that prevented the two lovers from being together and preventing people from living: the army, the church, the country... "The Land Without Food" is one This documentary shows the poverty and hunger in a remote mountainous area in Spain, but the great thing about Buñuel is that you must be able to see that this and the previous two movies were made by the same person... It is different from the crying documentaries on TV now, "No Food The contrast between the indifferent tone of the narration and the miserable picture in the narration of "The Earth" will surely make you remember after reading it... Buñuel succeeded in banning two of his first three works. This is really amazing... In Buñuel’s view, the world is so absurd. To present it, you must take the elements of reality, exaggerate them, and show them in a situation that can inspire scandals. It can show those who starve to death. The child’s shots are accompanied by the masterpiece of romanticism Brahms’s “Fourth Symphony”. This must be done by someone who has experienced surrealism..." How can I say that Buñuel is a very direct director. Quite agree: don't try to find symbols and mappings in it to find which object corresponds to which story or emotion. This is a very correct way to open it. He is a tireless entomologist who takes the interest of the bourgeoisie as his mission. The scenes presented in "Land Without Food" and the filming process (in order to tell the story of the donkey's death when sending honey out of the mountain, the artificial killing of the donkey and the bees surrounding it, etc.) have indeed involved the issue of documentary ethics. But if you say "Golden Age" is the most loyal For real surrealist template works, "An Andalu Dog" always feels less "honest" to me: the so-called "story line" seems to be the screenwriter deliberately to create "this movie has a story line, you don’t understand it. Think about it carefully. Some of the shots seem to show off something like "I've been in Psychoanalysis 101", unlike all the scenes in "Golden Age" that are detailed and not dazzling. It's even a bit lengthy and touching. In other words, "An Andalu Dog" contains a bit of "gimmick for the middle-class pastime" (Of course, it is undoubtedly still an epoch-making movie, based on the opening scene of the cloud passing the moon knife and cutting the eyes. That's enough), and this feeling is much less in "Golden Age", and Buñuel's subsequent movies have no such flavor. In other words: after getting rid of Dali (the old and conservative bourgeois defender), Buñuel began to become Buñuel.
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