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L'Age D'Or L'Age D'Or is a 1930 surrealist film directed by Luis Buñuel and written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

The film was financed to the tune of a million francs by the nobleman Vicomte de Noailles, who commissioned a film every year for his wife's birthday. When it was first released, there was a storm of protest. The film premiered in Paris in October of 1930 described as the dream of a madman. By December of 1930, it was so notorious that a group of incensed members of the League of Patriots threw ink at the screen, assaulted members of the audience and destroyed art work by Joan Miró, Man Ray and others on display in the foyer. It was subsequently banned for nearly 50 years. It had its official US opening in 1979.

The film consists of a series of unrelated vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general. In one notable scene, the young girl passionately kisses the feet of a religious statue.

In the final vignette, the placecard narration tells of an orgy of and tells us that the survivors of the orgy are ready to emerge. From the door of a castle emerges a Christ like figure. This scene is alluded to in the opening sequence, which resembles a short science film about a Scorpion. The narrator tells us that the Scorpion has five parts, but the sting is in the tail. Pauline Kael described