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
Happy Days (play) this way but we never discover how she came to be trapped so. A number of suggestions have been put forth to explain where the idea for the original imagery originated. James Knowlson has suggested images from Luis Buñuel’s 1928 film, "Un chien andalou" or a photograph by Angus McBean of Frances Day. Beckett required the set to have "a maximum of simplicity and symmetry" with a "very pompier trompe-l'oeil backcloth to represent unbroken plain and sky receding to meet in far distance". "What should characterise [the] whole scene, sky and earth", he wrote, "is a pathetic unsuccessful realism, the