L'Âge d'Or (1930) on Netflix
A man and a woman are in love. Their attempts to consummate that passion are thwarted by their families, by the Church and by bourgeois society.
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Plot summary
The film unfolds as a series of linked vignettes, beginning with a documentary about scorpions. The couple are first seen causing a disturbance in the mud during a religious ceremony. Two men apprehend the man and lead him away through the city. The woman tells her mother she hurt her finger, and she and her parents attend a party. At the party the guests carry on as though nothing unusual were happening.
Cast
- Caridad de Laberdesqueas Marquise' Chambermaid
- Max Ernstas Bandit Leader in the Hut
- Germaine Noizetas Marquise of X
- Duchangeas Orchestra Conductor
- Bonaventura Ibáñezas Marquis of X
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about L'Âge d'Or (1930)
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- After L'Age d'Or premiered at Studio 28 in Paris on 29 November 1930, the right-wing League of Patriots threw ink at the cinema screen, assaulted viewers who opposed them and destroyed lobby artworks by Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Man Ray and Yves Tanguy.
- On 10 December 1930 the Prefect of Police of Paris, Jean Chiappe, arranged to have L'Age d'Or banned from further public exhibition, after the Board of Censors re-reviewed the film.
- The de Noailles family withdrew L'Age d'Or from commercial distribution and public exhibition for more than forty years, though it was privately shown at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1933. Forty-nine years later, from 1-15 November 1979, it had its legal U.S. premiere at the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco.
- L'Age d'Or began as a second collaboration between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, who had fallen out by the time it was made; the novice Buñuel shot most of the screenplay in sequence and used almost every meter of film he exposed.
- The band Tin Machine, fronted by David Bowie, re-enacted the toe-sucking scene from L'Age d'Or in the video for their 1991 song "You Belong in Rock n' Roll".
