The British Board of Film Censors banned this film in the UK in 1927, saying, "This film is so obscure as to have no apparent meaning. If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable."
At the film's premier, writer Antonin Artaud, who was obviously not pleased by what director Germaine Dulac did to his screenplay, shouted at the screen, calling her a cow.
Germaine Dulac did not credited herself as film director, but - in the first card after the title and immediately after Antonin Artaud's credit for screenplay, she credited herself for "composition visuelle" which means in English either "visual poem" or "visual art work". These are followed by another card: "not a dream, / but the world of images itself leading the mind where it would never have consented to go, the mechanism is within everyone's reach."
Considered by many to be the first surrealist film.
A 9 minute expert of this film is on display at the Museum of Modern Art on the 4th floor in the section where surrealist art is displayed (2024).