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05/24/03
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:17
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: One of Luis Buñuel's finest films, filled with humor, political barbs and wildly strange events. Nobile, an upper-class gentleman, has invited a group of friends to his home for a post-opera... [More]
Starring: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rimbal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Reviews for The Exterminating Angel
One of Luis Bunuel's masterworks, The Exterminating Angel is a brilliant surrealist allegory about a group of socialites who, inexplicably find themselves unable to leave their host's house, and gradually degenerate into violence and depravity.
07/30/03
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01/26/06
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10/23/08
My feeling is that his canvas is too narrow and his social comment too plain to keep our interest fixed upon his people and their barren stewing for an hour and a half.
05/20/03
Absurdity is relative; it requires a reality (or something less absurd) to be contrasted with.
07/29/09
In typical fashion, Buñuel offers no explanation, but the way your head spins around this simple premise makes each scene more fun than the last.
06/29/06
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10/10/05
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03/05/04
A deliciously sardonic black comedy in the best surrealistic tradition of auteur Luis Buñuel.
10/16/03
One of the master director's most concentrated and unambiguous works.
04/11/08
If not necessarily Buñuel’s greatest film, this unclassifiable creation must count as one of the most twisted stunts ever mounted for the screen.
09/07/03
Though less popular than other works, this is one of Bunuel's most philosophically profound and eccentric films, bearing undeniably disturbing effects on the viewers.
07/06/05
A blistering attack on social classes and conventions, The Exterminating Angel may be the best in a long line of Buñuel masterpieces.
03/01/04
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03/18/06
Bunuel's ultimate cosmic joke against meaning itself
03/11/09
I watched it and I don't know what it means either, but it's a hell of a movie.
01/01/00
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11/02/01
Buñuel faz uma contundente crítica à burguesia através da sátira e do absurdo.
11/19/03
The great Spanish director Luis Bunuel traps us in the surrealistic universe of The Exterminating Angel, his most bitter, most brilliant work since Viridiana.
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