Un Chien Andalou directed exclusively to the artistic sensibility and to the reason of the spectator." Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, "What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?" Through their accomplishment with "Un Chien Andalou", Dalí and Buñuel became the first filmmakers to be
Un Chien Andalou scene as 10th out of "The 25 Most Shocking Moments in Movie History". The lyrics of the Pixies song "Debaser" are based on "Un Chien Andalou". Un Chien Andalou Un Chien Andalou (, An Andalusian Dog) is a 1929 French silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 with a limited showing at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months. "Un Chien Andalou" has no plot in the conventional sense of the word. The chronology of the film