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L'Âge d'Or (re-release)

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L'Âge d'Or (re-release) reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Classic  |  Comedy  |  Drama  |  Foreign  |  Romance

Written by: Luis Buñuel
Salvador Dalí

Directed by: Luis Buñuel

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 30, 2004

Running Time: 60 minutes, B/W

Origin: France

Language(s): French (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst, Josep Llorens Artigas, Lionel Salem, Germaine Noizet, and Duchange

If brutal assaults on religious, political, and social establishments no longer constitute the novelty they posed in 1930, Buñuel's first sound film remains perhaps the screen’s greatest ode to Surrealism, and a veritable checklist of the obsessions that would mark the rest of his long career. (Film Forum)

What The Critics Said

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80

Village Voice J. Hoberman

Thanks to his mastery of montage, Buñuel naturalizes Dalí's images into a duplicitous rhythm of normality and outrage. The film suggests instances of sex and violence far more extreme than any actually represented while contriving effronteries so offhanded you can't believe you've actually seen them.

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80

Empire Staff (Not credited)

Extreme and outrageously blasphemous.

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50

Variety Staff (Not Credited)

Bunuel's anger at society, particularly its attitude on morality, seems not only dated today, but laugh provoking. [Review is of a 1964 screening at Lincoln Center, NY, first showing of pic in the US.]

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

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