Director: Luis Bunuel
Year: 1930
Country: France | Spain
Language: French
Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired
Length: 63 mins
Format: PAL
Colour: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: 15
Alternate Title: The Golden Age

Synopsis

L'Age d'Or and Un Chien Andalou, two landmark films in the history of cinema, are presented together in this special DVD box-set, complete with a 30-page booklet. This is the first time that L'Age d'Or has ever been released on DVD, anywhere in the world.

L'Age d'Or is indisputably one of the great collaborations of cinema history, uniting the genius of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali in the making of a Surrealist masterpiece – a uniquely savage blend of visual poetry and social criticism. A sinister and strangely poignant chronicle of a couple's struggles to consummate their frenzied desire in the face of a stream of obstacles from bourgeois society and the Church, the film was banned and vilified for many years, becoming justly legendary for its subversive eroticism and its furious dissection of 'civilised' values.

The accompanying 30-page booklet includes notes on both films by Robert Short, author of The Age of Gold: Surrealist Cinema (Creation Books, 2003), biographies, selected bibliography, notes on the making of Un Chien Andalou by Luis Bunuel and Manifesto of the Surrealists concerning L'Age d'Or by The Surrealist Group.

Special Features

- Filmed introduction by art historian and author Robert Short.
- Commentary for each film by Robert Short
- A Proposito de Bunuel (2000, 98 mins) – a documentary on Luis Bunuel.