72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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L’âge d’or

Luis Buñuel
France
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A man and a woman are passionately in love with one other, but their attempts to consume their passion are thwarted by their families, the Church and bourgeois society. This is apparently the central point of a plot which, with strong surrealist influences, goes off in all sorts of apparently unconnected directions. Following documentary footage on the habits of scorpions, a gang of bandits discovers on a rocky seashore a group of chanting bishops. The next arrival is a convoy of soldiers, nuns, ministers and civil cervants who have come to found imperial Rome. When the first stone is being laid everyone?s attention is drawn by the cries of an amorous couple. Separated, the man is carried off by the police. Finally, the survivers of an orgy organized by the Duke of Blangis leave the chateau of Selligny.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Screenplay
Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí
Photography
Albert Duverger
Edition
Luis Buñuel
Music
Luis Buñuel, Georges Van Parys
Cast
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Germaine Noizet, Bonaventura Ibáñez, Max Ernst
Running Time
60 m.
Country
France
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