"Modot continues to walk along the street, giving not a thought for anything except the woman he desires, and completely indifferent to the old man who kicks a violin along the pavement toward him, then stamps on it" (Freddy Buache, The Cinema of Luis Buñuel). Long praised by surrealists for its intransigent promotion of the interests of eroticism above all others, L'Age d'or continues to attract those intelligent enough to have a "bad attitude" regarding the family, private property, and the state. In the 1930 manifesto defending L'Age d'or, the poet Paul Eluard declared that "Buñuel has formulated a theory of revolution and love that goes to the very core of human nature...." Ado Kyrou adds: "L'Age d'or doesn't tickle. Its claws are poisoned." James Brook, PFA '82