L'âge d'or

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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 ... Read allA 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.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.

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Gaston Modot

The Man

Lya Lys

The Woman

Caridad de Laberdesque

Marquise' Chambermaid…

Max Ernst

Bandit Leader in the Hut

Artigas

Governor
(as Llorens Artigas)

Lionel Salem

Duke of Blangis

Germaine Noizet

Marquise of X
(as Mme Noizet)

Duchange

Orchestra Conductor

Bonaventura Ibáñez

Marquis of X
(as Ibanez)

Jean Aurenche

Bandit
(uncredited)

Jacques B. Brunius

Passer-by in the Street
(uncredited)

Luis Buñuel

Jean Castanier

Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert
(uncredited)

Juan Castañe

Bandit
(uncredited)

Pancho Cossío

Lame Bandit
(uncredited)

Simone Cottance

Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert
(uncredited)

Marie Berthe Ernst

Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert
(uncredited)

Juan Esplandiu

Bandit
(uncredited)

Director
- Luis Buñuel
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Trivia
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí had effectively fallen out by the time the film went into production to the extent that Dali refused to have anything to do with the actual making of the film. On the first day of shooting, Buñuel chased Dalí off the set with a hammer.

Quotes
Young Girl: I have waited for a long time. What joy to have our children murdered!

Alternate versions
This film was published in Italy in an DVD anthology entitled "Un Chien Andalou", distributed by DNA Srl. The film has been re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin . This version is also available in streaming on some platforms.

Connections
Featured in Visions: Cinema, Cinemas/Q & A with Paul Schrader/A Film Comment by Angela Carter (1982)

Soundtracks
Ave Verum Corpus K. 618
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Influential

Dream-like, funny, and compelling, Luis Buñuel's surrealist masterpiece is required viewing for anyone who claims to have a grasp of the history of cinema.

Too thought-provoking to be called hallucinogenic, L'Age D'Or nevertheless has the disjointed narrative of a dream. It makes sense on its own terms the same way a dream does.

Monty Python fans may see in its brazen non sequitors a similarity to the Python TV skits. Material like this can only come in small chunks; the message would be lost in a conventional narrative.

One memorable scene has a (fully-clothed) couple embracing and kissing while crowd of people arrives and breaks them up. A city is constructed on the very spot of this thwarted love. Message: civilization is built on repression of natural urges. If the man and women ever get together again, the world as we know it will be destroyed. The counterculture movement of the 60s echoed this and other themes that the surrealists explored 35 years previously.

This extremely influential movie should be viewed by anyone interested in Luis Buñuel's career and anyone interested in surrealism in film and anyone looking for a mind-expanding experience.