One of Buñuel's two early contributions to the Surrealist cause, when it mattered most. Unlike the other and earlier one, Un Chien Andalou, this one was unavailable to the public for a long time -- five decades or so. It is also much longer than the other in minutes and much more overtly, dogmatically political in content. For one reason or the other, it doesn't hold up as well, and if you aren't carried away by the excitement of seeing it for the first time, it has some pretty dull stretches in it. Some of the scurrilities certainly retain their freshness, as when the second barrel of a shotgun is emptied into a young boy on whom the first barrel thoroughly did the job. Others, like the equation of Christ and the Marquis de Sade, have gone moldy. (1930) — Duncan Shepherd
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