Having collaborated on "Un chien andalou", Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel then made "L'Âge d'Or", an equally bizarre movie. It tears apart every sexual and societal more of the era. Seriously, this movie takes a swipe at just about everything. No surprise that Mussolini's ambassador in France denounced it, while France's reactionary League of Patriots interrupted a screening, causing it to get removed from circulation (on top of that, a right-wing Spanish newspaper attacked the movie as "...the most repulsive corruption of our age...").

It's not a great movie. Much of it is kind of slow. But mark my words, you've never seen anything like this. Not even Terry Gilliam could create something as surreal as this. It's interesting to see for the artistic factor mostly. Definitely check it out.

Normally I write the plot here, but I have no idea how...

The film starts off explaining the physical and biological makeup of the scorpion, making me wonder why the film is called "The Golden Age". That soon goes away. Then we are treated to dirty men, perhaps gold miners... so what is all this talk of accordions and hippopotamuses? The film gets even more strange from there on out, with withering toilet paper, a violin and other such nonsense, somehow connecting the opening non-fight non sequitoriously to Imperial Rome and some French people... Then a man who sees women masturbating in posters...

What the heck is a Majorcan? And what is up with the foot fetish scene? I like feet as much as the next guy -- maybe even more -- but I was more than a little put off by the drawn-out love between the woman and the statue. And then, "What joy in having killed our children!" Then a Majorcan returns... a flaming tree... a giraffe getting pushed out a window... and then what seems to be a reference to the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days of Sodom".

Four times as long as "Un Chien Andalou", but strangely enough not as weird... this film may not make much or any sense, but it truly is a surrealist masterpiece.

A couple in love wants to have sex before marriage, against the moral standards of the bourgeois society and the church. With this storyline, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali produced a movie that was forbidden for almost fifty years. Therefore, certainly it is a movie at least fifty years ahead of its time. The surrealistic story begins with scorpions, and I swear that I have never understood the connection of the scorpions with the story. Are they a metaphor to the Church, family and society? I believe the process of creation of this very irrational story might have been through a brain storm between Buñuel and Dali in a trip, using alcohol and drugs, since there are many non-sense sequences and scenes. Otherwise, they probably were joking with the audiences, which would be a group of pretentious intellectuals from the bourgeois class that Buñuel so despised. There are funny parts, and some of them are so illogical that makes laugh, such as the cow on the bed, the giraffe being thrown through the window etc. The attacks to the priests and Catholic Church are outrageously hilarious. "L'Âge d'Ór" is recommended for very specific audiences only. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Era do Ouro"("The Age of the Gold")