1962 | Mexico | Fiction

El ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel)

  • Spanish 93 mins
  • Director | Luis Buñuel
  • Writer | Luis Buñuel
  • Producer | Gustavo Alatriste

STATUS: Released

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A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador). Made just one year after the director’s inter­na­tional sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie comic absurdity, continues Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.

Surrealism Satire Entrapment Decay Hypocrisy
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The Criterion Collection
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