Buñuel'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.
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12/12/2012
So yeah, I have no real clue as to what the hell I just watched. I guess that's surrealism! Really though, this is a tough nut to crack. People tend to think Lynch is tough but there's a difference to me between confusing and symbolical. L'Age d'Or is confusing on purpose. It tells a rather straightforward story, but the narrative is littered with little details that make it a weird experience to the extreme. Bunuel's often cited hatred toward the bourgeois seems to have it's root"
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