L'Âge d'or
- Original title
- L'Âge d'or (La edad de oro)aka
- AKA
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- L'Age d'Or
- The Golden Age
- Year
- 1930
- Running time
- 62 min.
- Country
- France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Gaston Modot
- Lya Lys
- Max Ernst
- Pierre Prévert
- Valentine Hugo
- Caridad de Laberdesque
- Pancho Cosío
- José Artigas
- Lionel Salem
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- Music
- Cinematography
Albert Duverger (B&W)- Producer
- 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
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"A 60-minute- plus treasure that shouldn't be missed."
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