Scrupulously restored, Buñuel and Dali’s surrealist bombshells come up fresher and more provocative than ever. Kinky clerics, dead donkeys, razors across eyeballs – the subversive young Spaniards gleefully raid the Freudian toolbox and string it all together with delirious dream logic. The BFI release is bulked out with a substantial intro and commentary by surrealism expert Robert Short, plus a Spanish Buñuel documentary.
