Movie Night with Crispin Glover: L’Age d’Or

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Post-film discussion with Crispin Hellion Glover! 35mm print

“‘Our sexual desire has to be seen as the product of centuries of repressive and emasculating Catholicism… it is always coloured by the sweet secret sense of sin,’ mused Buñuel in his autobiography My Last Breath. One might describe L’AGE D’OR as 63 minutes of coitus interruptus, a scabrous essay on Eros and civilisation, wherein a couple is constantly prised apart from furious love-making by the police, high society and, above all, the Church. Financed by the Vicomte de Noailles, a dream patron who loyally pronounced the film exquisite and delicious, even as right-wing extremists were pelting it with ink and stink bombs, this is a jagged memento of that Golden Age before directors forgot the art of filming erotica (the celebrated toe-sucking is sexier by far than almost anything since), the revolutionary avant-garde lost its sense of humour, and surrealism itself fell prey to advertising-agency chic.” – Time Out (London)

• Country France
• Rating NR
• Year 1930
• Running Time 63 minutes
• Director Luis Buñuel

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