Outsider Cinema

L'Âge d'Or

A film by Luis Buñuel

  • 1930
  • 1 hr 3 min (approx.)
  • 35mm, black and white
A still from L'Âge d'Or.

Two lovers keep being pulled apart by church, family and state. Right-wing protesters wrecked the Paris cinema showing it, and the police banned it within weeks.

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Public domain in the US; copy posted by Monterey History & Art Association

L'Âge d'Or

Public domain in the US; copy posted by Monterey History & Art Association. Open on YouTube

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