“Surrealism” and the Omnipotence of Cinema James. M. Magrini August 2007 Feature Articles Starting from André Breton’s 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, this essay explores the ways in which the Movement’s philosophical ideas found expression in the ‘first wave’ of surrealist filmmaking in such films as L’Étoile de Mer and Un Chien Andalou.