Salvador Dalí co-wrote the 1930 film L’Age d’Or with Luis Buñuel after Un Chien Andalou.
L’Age d’Or, usually translated as The Golden Age, was directed by Buñuel and developed with Dalí during their early Surrealist collaboration. It uses provocative, discontinuous episodes to challenge religious authority, social convention, sexual repression, and bourgeois respectability.
The film followed Un Chien Andalou, their celebrated 1929 short film. Although the two artists worked together on both projects, their relationship became strained during the production of L’Age d’Or. Dalí’s involvement was therefore less extensive than in their first film collaboration.
The film caused major controversy when it was screened in Paris. Its theatrical run was disrupted by hostile protests, and it was subsequently banned for many years. L’Age d’Or remains an important example of early European Surrealist cinema and is often discussed alongside Buñuel’s later independent films.