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...funny, certainly; bizarre, yes; but also a far cry from the formal, unbroken Surrealist veneer of, say, Luis Bu̱uel??۪s early films. Another sequence early in the play featured a parodic ballet to grandiose music, about on par with the kind of humor you would see in a commercial during the Super Bowl. If anything, the show was unpretentious...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: 'Umbrellas' Covers Surrealism With Comic Veneer | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

Apropos for a campus in dire need of leftist political art, the Harvard Film Archive will screen L’Age d’Or (The Golden Age), Luis Buñuel??€™s classic work of surrealism, subversion and sarcasm, this Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reviews | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...film is the companion piece to Buñuel??€™s somewhat better-known short Un Chien Andalou, notorious for its striking image of a woman having her eye cut open with a knife. The first film acted as a sketch of its director’s major themes; L’Age d’Or is the full portrait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reviews | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...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 of alleged social oppression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reviews | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

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