L'Age d'or (Guldåldern, 1930)

US Kino Video DVD edition


 

After "Un Chien Andalou" there was no going back for Luis Buñuel. He wanted to stay a Surrealist, so making a commercial
film was out of the question - says Luis Buñuel in his autobiography "My Last Sigh" (Besides being one of the greatest
film directors ever he also wrote one of the greatest autobiographies ever, it's highly recommended).
He also says that Salvador Dali was involved with the script at an early stage, but that they had a fallout and went their
separate ways, and that Buñuel wrote script for L'Age d'or alone.

The follow up, the sequel, to Un Chien Andalou is a collection of surrealistically absurd and for it's time very provocative scenes.
L'Age d'or is a rebellious and anarchistic satire of the Upper class, of Religion and the repressive society morals of the Bourgeoisie.
But also, it's Sexually provocative .... and with some room for Buñuel's foot fetish when actress Lya Lys sucks on the marble toe
of a statue (see DVD cover). This by Buñuel so beloved kink that would show up in most of his films in some form.
L'Age d'or was one of the very first French sound films

Kino Video presents the film in its 4:3 fullscreen original ratio, with french mono audio and with english subtitles, black & white
and with sporadic comments from Robert Short in the audio commentary, picture stills gallery and a filmography.

 

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