L’Âge d’or (The Golden Age). Luis Buñuel, 1930.
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Edition screened: BFI Blu-ray, released 2011. French intertitles with English subtitles, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 62 minutes.
Summary: A few comparatively mild scenes of violence toward animals.
Details:
1) L’Âge d’or opens with three minutes of documentary footage of scorpions in nature, showing two scorpions fighting and a brief confrontation with a rat. There is nothing alarming or cruel included.
2) At 16:20 a man quickly kicks a small white dog into a crowd. There is no depiction of injury. A minute later the same man steps on and smashes a beetle.
A young Luis Buñuel collaborated with Salvador Dalí to make L’Âge d’or and Un Chien Andalou, two of the most important films ever created. They strongly influenced not only several generations of filmmakers, but also the entire scope of 2oth-century art. Do not allow a few unfortunate seconds to prohibit your attentive viewing of these films. They are works of brilliance, wit, and daring social commentary that define the role of intellectual artists.