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L'Âge d'or

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Original title

L'Âge d'or (La edad de oro)aka

AKA

L'Age d'Or
The Golden Age

Year

1930

Running time

62 min.

Country

France

Director

Luis Buñuel

Screenwriter

Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí

Cast

Music

Georges Van Parys

Cinematography

Albert Duverger (B&W)

Producer

Vizconde de Noailles

Genre

Drama | Surrealism. Satire

Synopsis

Luis Buñuel's second film is a surreal attack on bourgeios ideals that incited a riot when first released and still retains its power to shock. Buñuel began the film as a collaboration with Salvador Dali, but after a few days working together the two had a falling out and Buñuel made the film himself, incorporating many of Dali's ideas. Its narrative follows two nameless characters, a man and a woman, through a series of scenes connected by dreamlike logic as they try, unsuccessfully, to make love. One memorable sequence finds the couple writhing around on a cliff when a mob of socialites comes upon them and pries them apart. Frustrated, the man sees a yelping poodle and kicks it into the air. L'AGE D'OR is not only an attack on bourgeois life but also a doctrine that directs humanity to live as the surrealists believed they should: that is, by placing love before everything else in life, such as the church, status, and family. Funny, disturbing, and thoroughly bizarre, Buñuel's film is a purposefully blasphemous and corrosive work that attacks social institutions with such vigor and imagination that one cannot help but be entertained.

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Critics' reviews

"A 60-minute- plus treasure that shouldn't be missed."

Marta Barber: Miami Herald
"Nonsensical, erotic, scandalous, revolutionary"

Jamie Russell: BBC

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