A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate their love are thwarted by their families, the Church, and the bourgeois society.

Scorpions, lust, etiquette, war—his final collaboration with Dalí finds Luis Buñuel at a peak, offering up a provocative, darkly funny, and cheerfully blasphemous look at a “civilized” society about to tear itself apart. An essential classic of cinema, beckoning new viewers to take the plunge.