L’Age d’or

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The film perhaps most identified with the Surrealist movement, L'Age d'or was described on its release as a “desperate pursuit of a wonderful love across the ferocious and cunning snares of social life” (Jean-Paul Dreyfus). Luis Buñuel himself reflected, “L'Age d'or is the only film in my career conceived and created in a state of euphoria and enthusiasm, of vertigo for overthrowing things and deliberate seeking of scandal, dedicated to attacking the representatives of 'order' and ridiculing their 'eternal' principles. The period called for such a spirit.”



• Written by Buñuel, Salvador Dalí. Photographed by Albert Dubergen. With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst, Pierre Prévert. (63 mins, In French with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, PFA Collection)

Followed by:

Un Chant d’amour
Jean Genet (France, 1950)

Jean Genet based Un Chant d'amour on his first novel, Our Lady of the Flowers, written from his prison cell during the war. The film refines that material into a cinematic poem of an imprisoned homosexual's love and longing. In the early sixties, community activist Saul Landau became a West Coast distributor for Un Chant d'amour, and saw the film, “banned in Berkeley,” go all the way from the Alameda County Superior Court, where it was deemed obscene, to the Supreme Court which, in 1967, concurred. 



• Written by Genet. Photographed by Jacques Natteau. (20 mins, Silent, B&W, 16mm, From Film-makers’ Cooperative)

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