An Andalusian Dog / Age of Gold ( Un chien andalou / L'Age D'or ) ( Âge d'or )

An Andalusian Dog / Age of Gold (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Un chien andalou / L'Age D'or
Alternate Title: Âge d'or
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Linear PCM )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
63 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Biographies
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1929 - 1930 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Luis Bunuel

Written By:
Luis Bunuel
Salvador Dalí

Actors:
Simone Mareuil ..... Young girl (as Simonne Mareuil)
Pierre Batcheff ..... Man (as Pierre Batchef)
Gaston Modot ..... The Man
Lya Lys ..... Young Girl
Caridad de Laberdesque ..... Chambermaid and Little Girl
Max Ernst ..... Leader of men in cottage
Josep Llorens Artigas ..... Governor
Lionel Salem ..... Duke of Blangis
Germaine Noizet ..... Marquise
Duchange ..... Conductor
Bonaventura Ibáñez ..... Marquis (as Ibanez)

Synopsis:

An Andalusian Dog / Un Chien Andalou (1929):
In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye--to grab the audience's attention. The French phrase 'ants in the palms,' (which means that someone is 'itching' to kill) is shown literally. A man pulls a piano along with the tablets of the Ten Commandments and a dead donkey towards the woman he's itching to kill. A shot of differently striped objects is repeatedly used to connect scenes.

Age of Gold / L'Age D'Or (1930):
Bunuel's first feature has more of a plot than Un Chien Andalou, but it's still a pure Surrealist film, so this is only a vague outline. A man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, the Church and bourgeois society.

An Andalusian Dog / Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Un Chien Andalou consists of seventeen minutes of bizarre and surreal images that may or may not mean anything. A straight razor seems to be placed by a woman's eye, a small cloud formation obscures the moon, a cow's eye is slit open, a woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with his cane, a man drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys and live priests, and a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge.

Age of Gold / L'Age D'Or (1930)
The film began as a second collaboration with Dalí, but, by the time the film went into production, Buñuel and Dalí had had a falling out, and so Dalí actually had nothing to do with the actual making of L'Âge d'Or. During this film, Buñuel worked around his technical ignorance by filming mostly in sequence and using nearly every foot of film that he shot. It has generally been seen as a scathing attack on bourgeois society and the Roman Catholic Church.

An Andalusian Dog / Un Chien Andalou (1929)
'Un Chien Andalou' won membership of the Paris Surrealist group for both Bunuel and Dali, and launched Bunuel on a lifetime of provocations and scabrous satires. Bunuel's first film, continues to shock audiences as it did in 1928 with its provocative imagery, including the infamous cutting open of an eye with a straight razor.

Age of Gold / L'Age D'Or (1930)
A man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, the Church and bourgeois society.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 13 August, 2011.

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