Title: L' Âge d'or - The Golden Age (1930) Directed by: Luis Buñuel Date of birth: 22 February 1900, Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, Spain Date of death: 29 July 1983, Mexico City, Mexico Writing credits: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Marquis de Sade Music: Luis Buñuel, Georges van Parys
Year: 1930 Country: France Language: French Color: Black and White Runtime: 60 min.
Synopsis
Starts off as a documentary about scorpions before descending into a series of surrelist vignettes about a man and a woman’s attempts at consummating their romantic relationship being continually thwarted by the bourgeois values and sexual mores of family, church, and society.