„Złoty wiek” – arcydzieło prowokacji
„L’âge d’or” – the Masterpiece of Provocation

Summary/Abstract: Ninety years ago, on 31st June 1930, a private screening of Luis Buñuel’s film "L’âge d’or" took place in a Parisian mansion of Marie-Laure and Charles de Noailles. At the end of November of the same year, the film officially premiered at Studio 28 in Paris. A few days later, on 3rd December, inkwells and other dangerous objects were thrown at the screen, and one of the biggest brawls in the history of cinema started. Everything in the movie, including the music carefully chosen by the director, was provocative, and the resulting tumult was well planned and it pleased André Breton and other surrealists enormously. Giżycki recalls these facts and deliberates whether this act of provocation still resonates in present-day world.

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