L'âge d'or (1930)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.7/10   

Director:

Luis Buñuel

Escritores:

Luis Buñuel (scenario) and
Salvador Dalí (scenario)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

1 noviembre 1979 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance | Comedia | Fantasía

Frase comercial:

Banned for over 50 years [Australia Theatrical]

Plot:

Bunuel's first feature has more of a plot than Un Chien Andalou, but it's still a pure Surrealist film...

Plot Keywords:

Fire | Socialite | Bishop | Controversy | Bizarre

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Pure Cinema

Reparto

Gaston Modot	...	The Man
Lya Lys	...	Young Girl
Caridad de Laberdesque	...	Chambermaid and Little Girl
Max Ernst	...	Leader of men in cottage
Josep Llorens Artigas	...	Governor
Lionel Salem	...	Duke of Blangis
Germaine Noizet	...	Marquise
Duchange	...	Conductor
Bonaventura Ibáñez	...	Marquis (as Ibanez)

También conocida como:

Âge d'or (France) (alternative spelling)
Age of Gold (International: English title) (literal title)
La bête andalouse (France) (working title)
The Golden Age (USA)
La edad de oro (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

60 min | USA:63 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.20 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Tobis-Klangfilm)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Finland:K-16 | Portugal:(Banned) (1930-1974) | Argentina:16 | UK:15 (2003 re-rating) | UK:AA (1980 release)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Billancourt Studios - 50 Quai du Pont-du-Jour, Paris 16, Paris, France

Compañía:

Vicomte de Noailles

Trivialidades:

This film opens with a documentary on scorpions. This was an actual film made in 1912 which Luis Bunuel added commentary.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois (2004)

Banda de Sonido:

Ave Verum Corpus K.618

Pure Cinema

L'Age D'Or is pure cinema, as silent films were, and despite how difficult it may be to feel absorbed in it, it really is a great work. It consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most prolonged of which tells the goofy satirical story of a man and a woman who are keenly in love. Their efforts to have sex are always obstructed by their families, by the Church and the bourgeoisie. In one attention-grabbing moment in the film, the woman passionately sucks on the toe of a religious statue as if it were a phallus, the iconoclasm of which is remarkable considering the time at which this movie was made, and consequently banned.

Salvador Dali, the hugely amusing surrealist painter, co-directed this film with Luis Bunuel, and the tone of many of his paintings is captured in many moments of the film but in the appropriate manner for its medium, such as the scalps of the women flapping in the wind on a crucifix accompanied by cheerful music, or the twisted black humor of the final vignette, which uses comic-strip-like symbolism and details to tell of a Marquis de Sade-style orgy, the survivors (!) of which emerge, one of them reminiscent of the most conventional image of Jesus.

Upon viewing, I was muddled by all of this. I laughed a bit, my eyebrows curled, and I didn't quite understand, perhaps because I'm not accustomed to the proper manner in which one views a a silent film from 1929, but I did reflect upon it and it grew on me, because I do believe that if this film were not banned by the ever-predictable church and the governments they still influence, it would have moved the viewers of its era to open its eyes a bit more to sexual repression, whether propagated by civil bourgeois society or by the church, and ponder the film's most plausible implication, which is that repression generates violence, which is very true.