L’Age d’Or (1930)

Original title

L'Âge d'or

Directed by

Luis Buñuel

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 341 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Using surreal imagery and title cards, this early sound film mocks the absurdities of modern life. It targets the hypocrisy of bourgeois sexual morality and the Catholic Church's value system.

satiricalsurrealprovocativeunsettlingabsurdslow-burnvisually strikingcerebral

What happens

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; the film is about the insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society, and the value system of the Catholic Church. The screenplay is by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Although L'Age d'Or was one of the first sound films made in France, along with Miss Europe and Under the Roofs of Paris, much of the story is told with title cards like a predominantly silent film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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