Surrealism is different from Impressionism. Unlike Impressionist films that were first made for commercial purposes, surrealist films were shown for private viewing for small gatherings. The most famous surrealist was Luis Buñuel. He worked for surrealist style for 50 years.
Surrealism is anti-narrative meaning; its story is not linear where in you can’t tell what will likely happen for the next scenes. One example is Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel. Causality or the connection of cause and effect is absent in Surrealist films. Like in one’s dream, you cannot identify the flow of the story or what is happening because there is no connection of cause and effect in it.
The dreams, desires, and hallucinations of one character are dominant here. In fact it shows sexual desire, ecstasy, violence, blasphemy, and bizarre humor. Its style is eclectic or diverse. According to the FIlm Art by David Bordwell and Kirsten Thompson, many surrealsit films tease us to find la narrative logic in Surrealist films but they are simply absent. Its style is broad and its editing is a combination of some Impressionist devices. To sum it all up, Surrealism shows us an "undirected play of thought" which means the logic in the films are absent. Surrealism only lasted on 1930's.
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