L'Age D'or (B.F.I. Film Classics)

Paul Hammond's guide to L'Age D'or is as twisty and elliptical as the film itself. As he walks us through its "plot," his enthusiastic and punning prose provides data about the making of the film, Buñuel and Dali's peculiar obsessions, the Freudian underpinnings of the work, and the meaning of its images, particularly of its chief metaphor, the scorpion. --Raphael Shargel