Production
L’Âge d’or began as the second artistic collaboration between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, who had fallen out by the time of the film’s production. A neophyte cinéast, Buñuel overcame his ignorance of cinematic production technique by sequentially filming most of the screenplay; the 63-minute movie is composed of most every foot of film exposed and dramatic sequence photographed. The production budget was a million francs, and was financed and produced by the Vicomte Charles de Noailles (1881–1981), a nobleman who, beginning in 1928, yearly commissioned a film as a birthday gift to his wife, the Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles (1902–1970), who was a renowned patroness of the arts and of artists, such as Dalí and Buñuel, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Francis Poulenc, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank et alii.
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