Editing L'Age d'Or (section)

==Reception==
Upon receiving a cinematic exhibition permit from the Board of Censors, ''L'Age d'Or'' had its premiere presentation at Studio 28, Paris, on 29 November 1930. Later, on 3 December, the great popular success of the film provoked attacks by the [[right-wing]] ''[[Ligue des Patriotes]]'' (League of Patriots), whose angry viewers took umbrage at the visual statements made by Buñuel and Dalí. The [[reactionary]] French ''Patriots'' interrupted the screening by throwing ink at the cinema screen and assaulting viewers who opposed them. They then went to the lobby and destroyed art works by Dalí, [[Joan Miró]], [[Man Ray]], [[Yves Tanguy]], and others. On 10 December, the Prefect of Police of Paris, [[Jean Chiappe]], arranged to have the film banned from further public exhibition after the Board of Censors re-reviewed the film.<ref name="Movie Diva"/>

A contemporary right-wing Spanish newspaper published a condemnation of the film and of Buñuel and Dalí, which described the content of the film as "...the most repulsive corruption of our age ... the new poison which [[Judaism]], [[Freemasonry|Masonry]], and rabid, [[revolution]]ary sectarianism want to use in order to corrupt the people".<ref>Morris, C. B. ''This Loving Darkness: The Cinema and Spanish Writers 1920–1936'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1980), pp. 28–9.</ref> In response, the de Noailles family withdrew ''L'Age d'Or'' from commercial distribution and public exhibition for more than forty years; nonetheless, three years later, in 1933, the film was privately exhibited at the [[Museum of Modern Art]], in New York City. Forty-nine years later, from 1–15 November 1979, the film had its legal U.S. premiere at the [[Roxie Theater|Roxie Cinema]] in San Francisco.

The film critic Robert Short said that the scalp-decorated crucifix and the scenes of socially repressive violence, wherein the love-struck protagonist is manhandled by two men, indicate that the social and [[Psychological repression|psychological]] repression of the [[libido]] and of romantic passion and emotion, by the [[Mores|sexual mores]] of [[bourgeois]] society and by the [[value system]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]], breed violence in the relations among people, and violence by men against women.<ref>''L'Age d'Or'' commentary by Robert Short, published by British Film Institute (BFI).</ref>