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Features: DVD, English, Subtitled
Editor's Note
Luis Buñuel's second film is a surreal attack on bourgeios ideals that incited a riot when first released and still retains its power to shock. Buñuel began the film as a collaboration with Salvador Dali, but after a few days working together the two had a falling out and Buñuel made the film himself, incorporating many of Dali's ideas. Its narrative follows two nameless characters, a man and a woman, through a series of scenes connected by dreamlike logic as they try, unsuccessfully, to make love. One memorable sequence finds the couple writhing around on a cliff when a mob of socialites comes upon them and pries them apart. Frustrated, the man sees a yelping poodle and kicks it into the air. L'AGE D'OR is not only an attack on bourgeois life but also a doctrine that directs humanity to live as the surrealists believed they should: that is, by placing love before everything else in life, such as the church, status, and family. Funny, disturbing, and thoroughly bizarre, Buñuel's film is a purposefully blasphemous and corrosive work that attacks social institutions with such vigor and imagination that one cannot help but be entertained.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Additional Release Material:
| Audio Commentary - 1. Robert Short |
| | Text/ Photo Gallery | | Still Gallery | | Filmography - 1. Luis Bunuel |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Kino Video |
| Release Date: 11/23/2004 |
| Running Time: 63 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1930 | | Catalog ID: 3882 | | UPC: 00738329038823 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: French | | Available Audio Tracks: French | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: B&W |
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| | Professional Reviews | Uncut
"[S]hocking and beautifully immortal." 12/01/2004 p.184Entertainment Weekly
"[T]his is essential art film is richly humorous, too." 12/03/2004 p.68 USA Today
"Several scenes still drop the jaw, and the film has cumulative power amid the wicked laughs engendered." 11/26/2004 p.4E Los Angeles Times
"[O]ne of the milestones of the surrealist movement." 11/25/2004 p.E27 Premiere
"[The film] morphs from an entomological pseudo-doc to a tale of hilariously overheated, thwarted lust to a blasphemous joke." 02/01/2005 p.110 |
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