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L'Age D'Or

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Released

1930

Runtime

63

L'Age D'Or

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What's it About

This entrancing film, more a dreamlike erotic fantasy than a straightforward narrative, concerns the efforts of a government official (Modot) to consummate his love for a gorgeous young woman (Lys), despite the intercession of archbishops, gendarmes, and other forces of social decorum.

Why we love it

The mesmerizing "L'Age D'Or," a collaboration between young Spanish surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, contains no traditional plot but instead a series of striking dream-like images: a cow on a woman's bed, a large, formal delegation arriving on a barren island for no apparent reason, a vision of fully bedecked cardinals arrayed there on a craggy rock, and amidst all the pomp, a couple rolling around lustfully in the dirt. Billed as a "madman's dream," the film became a scandal, reviled in particular by the emerging Fascist movement. Today, it's revered as a cinematic landmark, skewering what Buñuel saw as oppressive, outmoded societal forces. Pure gold!

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