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The Exterminating Angel (Spanish: El ángel exterminador) is a 1962 Mexican film by Luis Buñuel. It is famous for its surrealistic atmosphere, including that a party's guests can't walk out of a room, inexplicably.
A group of upper-class guests cannot leave a dinner party and face their own degeneration and animal instincts. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more for this 1962 film by Luis Buñuel.
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- Drama, Fantasy
- Luis Buñuel
- 1967-08-21
May 11, 1997 · A macabre comedy about a group of dinner guests who are trapped in a house and reveal their savage instincts and secrets. Roger Ebert analyzes Bunuel's surrealist style, political symbolism and obsessions in this 1962 masterpiece.
A surrealist masterpiece by Luis Buñuel, The Exterminating Angel depicts a group of high-society friends trapped in a mansion after dinner. The Criterion Collection offers a restored high-definition transfer, interviews, documentary, and more.
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Edmundo and Lucia Nobile, a wealthy society couple, invite a group of twenty friends to their lavish Mexico City estate after a evening at the opera.
By small steps such as these, the great Spanish director Luis Bunuel traps us in the surrealistic universe of "The Exterminating Angel," his most bitter, most brilliant work since "Viridiana."
Feb 9, 2009 · Luis Buñuel's 1962 film The Exterminating Angel depicts a group of guests who are trapped in a living room after dinner and cannot escape. The film is a scathing critique of social conventions, perception, and human nature, made with artistic freedom in Mexico.
