Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou is a seventeen-minute French avant-garde film directed by Luis Buñuel, who wrote it with the painter Salvador Dalí. The two men made the film together in 1929, and it was Buñuel's first work as a director; his next film, The Young and the Damned, followed much later, in 1950. Buñuel also produced the film. The cast includes Simone Mareuil as a young woman and Pierre Batcheff as a man, with brief appearances by Buñuel himself in the prologue and by Dalí and other performers in smaller uncredited roles.

The film has no conventional plot. It is built from a series of surreal images that follow one another without rational explanation, moving between a woman, a man, a severed hand, a bicycle, and other strange sights, including the briefly shown cutting of an eye. Some of the images are drawn from dreams, and the film leaves it open whether they carry meaning or none at all. It is generally associated with the surrealist movement and is known for its short running time and its place at the start of Buñuel's career.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 7.4 from 1,456 votes, while film critics rate it 9.4 from 26 reviews, a gap suggesting that critics regard it more highly than general audiences do. Its reputation rests on its early date and its role in introducing surrealist ideas to cinema.