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Meshes of the Afternoon
Why this pick
Like Un Chien Andalou, it turns everyday objects and spaces into a looping dream logic, using sharp visual associations rather than conventional explanation.
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MOVIE1929 0h 16m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film opens with a title card reading "Once upon a time". A middle-aged man (Luis Buñuel) sharpens his razor at his balcony door and tests the razor on his thumb. He then opens the door, and idly fingers the razor while gazing at the moon, about to be engulfed by a thin cloud, from his balcony. There is a cut to a close-up of a young woman (Simone Mareuil) being held by the man. She calmly stares straight ahead as he brings the razor near her eye. Another cut occurs to the moon being overcome by the cloud, then a cut to a close up of a hand slitting the eye of an animal with the razor (which happens so quickly the viewer may believe it was the woman's eye), and the Vitreous body spills out from it.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Salvador Dalí
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