This collector’s edition, carefully edited by Enrico Ghezzi and Donatello Fumarola, includes a bilingual 60-page booklet that gathers unpublished critical essays written by various renowned intellectuals: Julio Bressane, the great master Jean Vigo, the acclaimed founder of the Cinematheque française Henri Langlois, George Bataille, Enzo Ungari, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, Aldo Nove, Tommaso Pincio and Tommaso Ottonieri. Furthermore the booklet includes exclusive French governmental documents – concerning the case that followed the 1930 projection of L’Age d’or in Paris – and also some poetries and poems composed by Luis Buñuel, extracted from his early collection Un Chien Andalou.

Extra features: feature-length audio commentary by Paolo Bertetto (university teacher to the University of Rome); a critical speech by Franco Battiato and a short film – Dry Martini (Buñuelino Cocktail) – specially made for this must-have edition.

Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog)

France 1929, 15’ 54’’, b/w

direction and editing: Luis Buñuel

screenplay: Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalì

Un chien andalou is different from other banal avant-garde productions with which some people would like to mix it up. Various definite facts follow one another without logical connection but they penetrate the horror so much that the audience is fascinated as they have watched an adventure movie.                                                                    George Bataille

L’âge d’or (Golden Age)

France 1930, 62’ 24’’, b/w

direction, screenplay and editing: Luis Buñuel

story: Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalì

Still today, I consider L’âge d’or to be the only film which truly glorifies total love. The violent reactions generated by its showing in Paris have only consolidated my awareness of its incomparable value. Love and all that it means for two people whose lives are defined by it and who are thus isolated from the rest of the world, have never been shown with such freedom and such audacious tranquility.                                                                                                        André Breton

Las Hurdes, o Tierra sin pan (Las Hurdes or Land Without Bread)

Spain 1932, 28’, b/w

direction, screenplay and editing: Luis Buñuel

Bunuel’s surrealism doesn’t belong to the past: it is pre-established, inside the Latin man. It is revolutionary because it releases ,through the imagination, what it is prohibited rationally. Nevertheless this liberation is not an escape but it is an instrument that reacts against the underdeveloped capitalist society.                                                                          Glauber Rocha

The box, which contains a bilingual booklet, is edited by Enrico Ghezzi and Donatello Fumarola

Extra Features:

-          Critical analysis of Franco Battiato

-          Dry Martini (Buñuelino Cocktail), a short film by A. Arrieta, 2009

-          Feature-length audio commentary by  Paolo Bertetto (professor at the University of Rome)

-          A “videothing” of Enrico Ghezzi