The humor and eroticism of this legendary classic remain undated. “In Paris in the late twenties, Buñuel mixed eagerly with the Surrealists, and both Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or are surrealist films. L'Age D'Or, which until (1969) was banned for public showing, is distinctly Freudian, suggesting Buñuel's violent reaction to the sexual perversions he had encountered at his Jesuit school. The swelling chords of Wagner's ‘Tristan und Isolde' on the soundtrack add to the erotic atmosphere; the lovers fight continually against everyone else in this symbolic world. Freedom, Buñuel appears to emphasize, exists only in sexual indulgence or, more precisely, in complete unselfconsciousness. The film is rich in cinematic innovations--the interior monologue, the use of mirrors and so on--but it is still deliberately obscure in parts....” Peter Cowie, Seventy Years of Cinema