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.