Dir. Luis Bunuel, French, France, 1930
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Sun 25 January 2015 // 19:30
/ Cinema
starring Gaston Modot and Lya Lys as a passionate couple caught in flagrante delicto, the relations, the state and the church conspire to keep the courting consorts in a constant condition of coitus interuptus
commisssioned from Bunuel and writing partner Salvador Dali by the Vicomte Charles de Noailles who, from 1928, financed a film a year as a birthday present for his aesthete wife the Vicomtesse Marie-Laure, a renowned patron of the arts...the film also features artists Max Ernst and Josep Llorens Artigas
...plus short films in support TBC...live score collaboration by Edinburgh's Sink and Newcastle's Noizechoir