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L'Age d'Or (French: L'Âge d'Or, pronounced [lɑʒ dɔʁ]), commonly translated as The Golden Age or Age of Gold, is a 1930 French surrealist satirical comedy film directed by Luis Buñuel about the insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society, and the value system of the Catholic Church. Much of the story ...
Nov 1, 1979 · With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst. A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
The plot of L'Age d'or is remarkably simple; two lovers (Gaston Modot and Lya Lys) declare war on a bourgeois French society intent on thwarting the fulfillment of their desires. And the film did not lack for name talent.
Nov 2, 2015 · L'Age d'Or (French: L'Âge d'Or, pronounced: [lɑʒ dɔʁ]), commonly translated as The Golden Age or Age of Gold, is a 1930 French surrealist comedy directed by Luis Buñuel about the insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society and the value system of the Roman Catholic Church.
Apr 17, 2002 · April 17, 2002. Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí were commissioned by Marie-Laurie and Charles de Noailles to produce a follow-up to Un Chien Andalou, 16 minutes that forever changed the face of cinema. Much like The Phantom of Liberty, L’Age d’Or is structured as a vicious string of gags.
the plot: two passionate yet frustrated lovers, a Man (Gaston Modot) and Young Girl (Lya Lys), were being kept from one another and repressed by the pious bourgeois establishment (and their families and society in general) for fear of them having sex together.
Jun 3, 2011 · More than 80 years on, this masterpiece of cinematic surrealism remains as brilliantly witty and shocking as ever. Uniting the genius of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, L'Age d'Or is a uniquely savage blend of visual poetry and social commentary.
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque. Running time. 63 minutes. Banned for decades, Buñuel’s feature debut is a gleefully inventive, wickedly funny and still profoundly disturbing Surrealist assault on every social and moral convention imaginable.
Feb 4, 2004 · Nonsensical, erotic, scandalous, revolutionary: Luis Buñuel's surrealist masterpiece L'Âge D'Or is not for those of a nervous disposition. After premiering in Paris in November 1930, the...
Feb 16, 2020 · One of the earliest sound films—and the first to use interior dialogue— L’Age d’Or is a decadent, jarring Freudian dreamscape that has maintained its horror, eroticism and taboo—provoking on planes both conscious and subconscious. Restored by la Cinémathèque française.
