interruptions yawn more widely, switching thematic ground on each occasion so that the audience is suspended, as it were, over an uncharted abyss. Precisely as he did in L'Age d'or, in fact; and precisely the same motifs recur in the new film, which once again makes the humn mind, haunted by its ineffectual attempts to come to terms with Marx's 'phantom of liberty', the battleground for a subversive challenge to conventional attitudes to sex, religion, politics..." (Tom Milne).