Ever since then I have been gradually gathering as many of his films as I can, and have watched some whereas others remained untouched, L'Age D'Or was one that remained untouched for some reason.
This was Bunuel's first feature length film, coming after the marvellous and iconic Un Chien Andalou, it isn't exactly a Silent film, so I kind of cheated by including it in the marathon. The early 30's was the real rise of sound in film, but despite the fact that an audio has been transposed onto this film it still lingers very much in Silent film territory.
So while the actors do technically "speak" their dialogue, the dialogue itself feels very detached from the images, much of the film contains no dialogue and is filmed in a traditional Silent film fashion and furthermore, intertitles are still used. So this strange film arrived at a time of great change and seems trapped between the two wildly different era's of Cinema.
