Luis Buñuel Mother" series, is their grandson. After this apprenticeship, Buñuel shot and directed a 16-minute short, "Un Chien Andalou", with Salvador Dalí. The film, financed by Buñuel's mother, consists of a series of startling images of a Freudian nature, starting with a woman's eyeball being sliced open with a razor blade. "Un Chien Andalou" was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning French surrealist movement of the time and continues to be shown regularly in film societies to this day. The script was written in six days at Dalí's home in Cadaqués. In a letter to a friend written in February 1929, Buñuel
Invisible Adversaries Export and Su Friedrich," referred to "Invisible Adversaries" as a feminist version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", noted that the film includes references to famous paintings and to "Un Chien Andalou", and wrote that therefore it "is visually rick, entertaining, striking, but also demanding." A few reviews, however, were negative. For example, London's "Time Out" wrote about the film that it is "[n]ot unlike """ and that it will "probably age as badly" and a reviewer for "The Heights" wrote that "I was expecting a great feminist work here, but got mediocrity. I cannot recommend that you see this