L'Âge d'or
★ 6.8 · 1930 · 63m · Romance · Comedy · Drama
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
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