L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age)1930 8 of 8

Want to see the complete movie, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ehSHdfgqA L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age) is a 1930 surrealist film directed by Luis Buñuel and written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
On 3 December 1930, a group of incensed members of the fascist League of Patriots threw ink at the screen, assaulted members of the audience, and destroyed art works by Dalí, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and others on display in the lobby. On 10 December, the Prefect of Police of Paris, Jean Chiappe, arranged to have the film banned after the Board of Censors reviewed the film. A contemporary Spanish newspaper condemned the film as ...the most repulsive corruption of our age... the new poison which judaism, masonry, and rabid, revolutionary sectarianism want to use in order to corrupt the people. The Noailles family pulled the film from distribution for nearly 50 years. In 1933, it was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, but the film did not have its official United States premiere until 1-15 November 1979 at the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco.
Cast
Gaston Modot as The Man
Lya Lys as the Young Girl
Caridad de Laberdesque as a Chambermaid and Little Girl
Max Ernst as the Leader of men in cottage
Josep Llorens Artigas (Governor)
Lionel Salem as Duke of Blangis
Germaine Noizet as Marquise
Duchange as Conductor

The film's illustrations were created by Luis Ortiz Rosales

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[GrandiloTroll]

@nwaamw Welcome to Surrealism. Have a nice day.

[DritonGusia]

I watched the whole movie... now I can DIE HAPPY =D

[madahad9]

That final immage is the greatest in cinema history. To me it's all the violence the Church has perpetrated throughout the centuries. Who would have the balls to make such a statement in such a cinematic way. Bunuel is on that short list of true geniuses of cinema. The others include Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini, Kubrick, and Herzog. They treat film as an art form rather than a mere entertainment.

[megalomaniiiia]

adoro cuando lanza al obispo por la ventana

[nwaamw]

This doesn't make any sense, but I like it!

[lyonslaforet]

@GiveTheRabbitTrix Actually the film was banned in France until 1981.

[GiveTheRabbitTrix]

I'm taking a class on Salvador Dali right now, and writing a paper on this movie for my final. It's so crazy that the movie was banned in France until the 90's because of that portrayal of Jesus at the end. Bunuel and Dali got such a kick out of making people squirm, hahah.

[levanyzzuf]

This is still one of the funniest films ever made, hasn't aged one bit!

[vedraville]

@ruizdechavez The bearded person resembles the Church and it's corruption I've heard,not exactly Christ or Duc Le Blangis(which they name as for covering).

[bubblet24]

ummm ok then???