L'Age d'or (The Golden Age)
A surrealist masterpiece.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 23, 2004
- Originally Released: 1930
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gaston Modot & Pierre Prevert | |
Directed by | Luis Buñuel | |
Screenwriting by | Salvador Dalí |
Entertainment Reviews:
89%
TOMATOMETER
Several scenes still drop the jaw, and the film has cumulative power amid the wicked laughs engendered.
USA Today
[S]hocking and beautifully immortal.
Uncut
[T]his is essential art film is richly humorous, too.
Entertainment Weekly
[O]ne of the milestones of the surrealist movement.
Los Angeles Times
[The film] morphs from an entomological pseudo-doc to a tale of hilariously overheated, thwarted lust to a blasphemous joke.
Premiere
Product Description:
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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- Sales Rank: 17,384
- UPC: 738329038823
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