L'Âge d'or (1930)

L'Âge d'or poster

L'Âge d'or (1930)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
Christianity: Negative

Viewer Rating
7.6

Overview

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked 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.


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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

L'Âge d'or is a radical, surrealist critique of bourgeois society, the church, and state institutions, explicitly promoting the liberation of desire against oppressive social structures.

The movie features a traditional European cast typical of its era. However, its narrative strongly critiques the hypocrisy and repression of traditional societal institutions and the dominant bourgeois class, implicitly challenging the values associated with traditional identities.

Secondary

The film employs surrealism and blasphemous imagery to launch a scathing critique of Christianity, particularly Catholicism, and its perceived role in bourgeois hypocrisy and repression. It depicts religious figures and symbols as absurd, violent, or intertwined with sexual perversion, offering no counterbalancing positive portrayal.

Luis Buñuel's 'L'Âge d'or' is a surrealist film that critiques societal repression and bourgeois hypocrisy, centering on heterosexual desire. While provocative and transgressive for its time, it does not feature identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, thus receiving an N/A rating for its portrayal.

Luis Buñuel's surrealist film "L'Âge d'or" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on societal critique, desire, and anti-clericalism, without engaging with gender identity or transsexuality.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

L'Âge d'or is an original surrealist film from 1930, not an adaptation of pre-existing material or a depiction of historical figures. Its characters were created for this film, thus lacking any prior canonical or historical gender establishment to be swapped from.

L'Âge d'or is an original surrealist film from 1930. It does not adapt pre-existing characters from other media or depict historical figures, meaning there are no established racial baselines for its characters to be swapped from.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.6

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.2
The Movie Database logo
6.8

Critic Ratings

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8.9
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N/A

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