Peter Ibbetson is one of the most beautifully photographed American films and an example of Hollywood romanticism at its purest, if most extreme. Thus it was beloved of the French Surrealists. Gary Cooper and Ann Harding star in the story of childhood sweethearts who, as adults, are brought together following a dream-and who continue their love affair via dreams, when he is imprisoned for life. Andr?Breton, calling it "a triumph of Surrealist thought," placed it alongside L'Age d'or as a film which "exalt(s total love...In such a love there flourishes a genuine 'golden age' totally at odds with the age of mud through which Europe is stumbling; it is an age inexhaustibly rich in future possibilities." Ado Kyrou wrote, "In an ultimate gesture of the destruction of the concepts of time and space...the dream reaches its true grandeur, and embodying itself, unites their two bodies. Human conventions, death itself, everything is trampled by this love, more powerful than anything."