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Luis Bunuel's L'Age D'Or (L' Âge d'or)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Poetic, absurd, erotic, visionary and scandalous, L'AGE D'OR "can stilI provoke, baffle and delight" more than seventy years after its creation. "Contriving effronteries so offhanded you can't beIieve you've actually seen them" , L'AGE D'OR showcases the incomparably obsessive cinematic imagination of Luis Bunuel at its beginning and the ceIebrated surrealism of Salvador Dali at its peak.
ln 1930, folIowing their short film triumph UN CHlEN ANDALOU, BunueI and Dali created an hour long avant-garde tour de force that's both an aesthetic avalanche of boIdness and a withering attack on a society that elevates pious morality over sexuaI freedom. As scorpions battle, partisans stumbIe and the forces of a middIe-cIass righteousness repeatedIy interrupt two neurotic loves, L'AGE D'OR delivers a gIeefuI fever dream of Freudian unease, bizarre humor and shocking imagery that once experience cannot be forgotten. Skewering everything from CathoIic piety to sexual fetishism, the film provoked riots, was denounced by MussoIini's ambassador, earned its backer a threat of excommunication and was banned by the French Police alI within two weeks of its release.
A cherish inspiration for six decades of filmmakers from Hitchcock to David Lynch, FeIlini to Monty Python, this justifiabIy Iionized and excoriated masterpiece of 20th century cinema is now avaiIabIe on DVD to challenge, around, unnerve, amuse and galvanize the uninitiated for generations to come. Whether parody or polemic, artistic experiment of lurid shaggy-dog charade, L'AGE D'OR "reassures us that as long as we have eyes, we wiII be susceptibIe to shock" . |
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