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1930 |
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FANTASY
FOREIGN
ROMANCE
CONTROVERSIAL
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France |
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| Length: |
63 |
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Two bourgeois lovers (Lya Lys and Gaston Modot) constantly find that their lovemaking is being interrupted.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Once-daring avant-garde film full of surreal , sexual and anti-clerical images. Audiences pelted the screen with ink and stink-bombs at its first Paris screening and got it banned in France until 1979, so of course it has been hailed as a classic. Actually, it's pretty puerile. |
"It is LOVE that brings about the transition from pessimism to action: Love, denounced in the bourgeois demonology as the root of all evil. For love demands the sacrifice of every other value: status, family, and honor." |
(Bunuel & Dali, in the programme which accompanied the first screening of the film)
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