Word: renoirã
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...film is enjoyable alone for its astounding visuals (stunning for 1930) and rampant slapstick. Like Jean Renoir??€™s La Regle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game), also recently screened at the Archive, L’Age d’Or works on two levels: it’s a knee-slapping farce, at the same time deeply wrapped up in a scathing social commentary aimed squarely at the upper class. The targets of the latter film’s satire are Buñuel’s usual suspects: the Church, bourgeois society and other institutions...
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