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Surreal to Reel: Paris on Film -- L'Age d'Or and Sous les toits de Paris

Presented by Vanderbilt University at Vanderbilt University - Sarratt Cinema

October 14, 2009

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Presented as part of Surreal to Reel: Paris on Film. Funding provided in part by the Film Studies Program and the Department of French and Italian. Held in conjunction with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ exhibition Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris.

Presented by: Paul Young, Associate Professor of English, Director of Film Studies
The Golden Age (L’Age d’Or), France (1930) Dir: Luis Buñuel.
L'Age d'Or, which began as a collaboration between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali was seen by the artists as a challenge to make a film equally as bold as Un Chien Andalou. Combining Surrealism and an anti-bourgeois attitude to shocking effect, this film instigated wild protests worldwide. Poetic, absurd, erotic, visionary and scandalous, L'Age d'Or still provokes, baffles, and delights almost 80 years after its creation. In French with English subtitles.

Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris), France (1930) Dir: René Clair.
In René Clair’s irrepressibly romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. This witty exploration of love and human foibles, told primarily through song, captures the flamboyant atmosphere of the city with sophisticated visuals and groundbreaking use of the then new technology of movie sound. In French and Romanian with English subtitles.