Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave
212.505.5181
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L'Âge d'or
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Friday Jan 4, 2008 (7:30pm)
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$8
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Luis Buñuel's surrealist masterpiece L'Âge d'or so incensed the French right-wing movement when it was first shown in 1930 that, one night, fascist sympathizers rioted, throwing ink at the screen, assaulting audience members, and destroying art work by Dalí, Miró, and Man Ray on display in the theater lobby. The film, which features a series of interrelated vignettes involving a lot of blasphemous imagery — a Christ-like figure emerging from an orgy, scalps of impure women flapping in the wind, an amorous girl sucking on the toe of a religious statue — was subsequently banned. The government didn't lift that ban until nearly 50 years later, meaning the film didn't debut to the rest of the world until 1979.
