The humor, eroticism, and dreamy cinematic invention of this legendary classic remain as fresh and surprising as a cow sitting in the bedroom. L'Age d'or was described on its release as a "desperate pursuit of a wonderful love across the ferocious and cunning snares of social life" (Jean-Paul Dreyfus). Luis Buñuel himself reflected: "The sexual instinct and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a romantic film performed in full Surrealistic frenzy....L'Age d'or is the only film in my career conceived and created in a state of euphoria and enthusiasm, of vertigo for overthrowing things and deliberate seeking of scandal, dedicated to attacking the representatives of 'order' and ridiculing their 'eternal' principles. The period called for such a spirit."