The great screen surrealist Luis Buñuel co-wrote and directed this dark, bitterly witty satire. A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have gone away, and for some reason .. Read more
| Starring | Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Enrique Rambal |
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| Director | Luis Bunuel |
| Genres | Drama |
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The great screen surrealist Luis Buñuel co-wrote and directed this dark, bitterly witty satire. A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have gone away, and for some reason they cannot leave. There is no explanation why -- there are no locked doors or barred windows preventing them from going home -- but the guests are convinced that they're stranded. Left to their own devices, they slowly but gradually degenerate into genteel savagery, taking an axe to a water pipe for drinking water, killing and eating a sheep that was to be part of the post-dinner entertainment, hiding the bodies of dead guests in the closet, dabbling in witchcraft, and burning the furniture. Buñuel's dry, quixotic wit is abundantly displayed in this film. Leading the cast was Silvia Pinal, the renowned actress who starred in several of Buñuel's Mexican films (she was married to noted producer Gustavo Alatriste, who produced several films with Buñuel). Other than the short subject Simon of the Desert, El Angel Exterminador proved to be Buñuel's last film made in his adopted homeland.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Enrique Rambal |
|---|---|
| Director | Luis Bunuel |
| Studio | Arrow Films |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: Punjabi, Urdu |
| Released | Production year: 1962 To Rent: DVD: 28 Aug 2006 |
In the best surrealist tradition, BuÃuel claimed that his brilliant, disconcertingly funny joke - after an upper... read more on Time Out
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A great director at work
This film from the Spanish director Luis Bunuel was made cheaply in Mexico, Bunuel being unable to work regularly in Franco's Spain (his previous film, '... read more »
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Recommended watch!
Awesome film for its time. Weird, creepy and surreal through and through. Great stuff. The fact it's in Spanish also adds that special mystique to it.
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One of his most overtly surrealistic
It seems almost inappropriate to discuss a film as possibly multivalent as this, though I emphasise the word possibly, as Bunuel seemed particularly adamant ... read more »
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Classy Confusion
If it were not associated with Buñuel, this film could be dismissed as a confused display of privileged class crassness--toying with witchcraft, ... read more »
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