Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or
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Movie Reviews of Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or
Movie Review: Great movie aborted by Kino
Summary: 2 Stars
Ignore other people's opinions about the content of the film. Anyone who is a fan of Bunuel, Surrealism, or revolutionary and historically important filmmaking will truly enjoy this film. Easily five stars, but because of Kino's terrible transfer (which granted is not too bad considering the age of the original film), terrible sound...trust me, just terribly substandard everything. From the packaging to the pathetic special features this a total slap in the face to all real film collectors. The only special feature is a "commentary" by some monotone, nasal british film historian who recites nothing that you haven't heard a thousand times from other sources. Also, considering this is only a 62 minute film it is unacceptable that he goes for long stretches (upwards of 12 minutes in some cases) without saying a single thing. I'd estimate that he talks for a total of maybe 14-20 minutes on the "commentary" track. Absolutely horrid. The other sole "special feature" is also an utter failure, the Bunuel filmography is innacurate... how can you possibly mess something so simple up? Ask Kino...
At 23 dollars I cannot possibly recommend this, rather save your money and buy the recent Region 2 release by the British Film Institute which has Un Chien Andalou and L'age D'or together for a better price, with much better picture/sound and extras. Shame on you Kino...
Movie Review: Stick with Un Chien Andalou and skip this
Summary: 2 Stars
The movie has some interesting, if crudely executed, images such as a cow in a bed, a giraffe tossed from a second-story window, a woman literally sucking off a man's fingers and Jesus portrayed as a serial-killing pedophile. Yet somehow it manages to be boring.
Director Luis Bunuel mostly lectures the viewer with heavy-handed symbolism and forgets to be coherent (even within his surrealist format) and has many pointless, dull scenes such as the rebellious peasants at the beginning.
As for the DVD, the image looks OK for its age but could've been cleaned up better.
The commentary track is poor. The film historian lets lengthy passages and many interesting images go by without comment, and when he does comment, his words overflow with academic jargon.
Movie Review: a mind bending waste of time
Summary: 1 Stars
This early movie is I guess some sort or artsie nonsence, as it has absolutly no story line, and at times it's not only weird, but plain psyco, with some occasional downright disturbing footage. I suppose there is a sort of barely discernable romantic theme, but it's not unlike a Dali concept as far as that is concerned.
One can't help but scratch ones head after watching this movie, and wonder what the heck you were just wasting an hour on. The only reason I give it a single star is simply because of the age and it's place in French History, whatever that might be. No doubt people at the time would have been hard pressed to even give it one star.
This is one bizzarre movie