Review of L'Age d'Or

The reason "Un Chien Andalou" works better is that it is shorter, and has a quicker succession of images; "L'Age D'Or" is more plodding, and has too much dead space between its memorable images. When these images do appear, however, they can be funny (randomly kicking a blind man), disturbing (shooting a little kid), bizarre (a man commits suicide and his body falls on the ceiling), provocative (tossing the clergyman out the window), erotic (a woman passionately sucking on the toes of a statue) -> sometimes all at once! You cannot deny the impact of these two films, even if it took another 40 years for Monty Python and others to really popularize surrealism on the screen. *** out of 4.