El Ángel Exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) (1962)
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Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 1
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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
Aug 21, 1967 Wide
Feb 10, 2009
Altura Films International
Cast
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Silvia Pinal
Letitia the Valkyrie -
Jacqueline Andere
Senora Alicia Roc -
Jose Baviera
Leandro -
Augusto Benedico
Doctor -
Luis Beristáin
Christian -
Antonio Bravo
Russell -
Enrique Rambal
Nobile -
Enrico Garcia Alvarez
Senor Roc -
Claudio Brook
Majordomo -
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Rosa Elena Durgel
Silvia -
Lucy Gallardo
Lucia -
Ofelia Guilmain
Juana Avita -
Tito Junco Sr.
Raul -
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Bertha Moss
Leonora -
Ofelia Montesco
Beatriz -
Javier Loya
Francisco Avila
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (1) | DVD (8)
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.
Top CriticA macabre comedy, a mordant view of human nature that suggests we harbor savage instincts and unspeakable secrets.
The comedy is as black as an 8 Ball.
A wickedly designed, satirical and quite possibly dangerous work.
Absurdity is relative; it requires a reality (or something less absurd) to be contrasted with.
Bunuel's ultimate cosmic joke against meaning itself
One of the great cherry bombs of cinema finally gets the release it deserves, even if its characters are still clamoring for their own.
One of the master director's most concentrated and unambiguous works.
Trained bears, sheep, and Bunuel's typical contempt for the church all mix to create a classic of cinema.
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.
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.
A blistering attack on social classes and conventions, The Exterminating Angel may be the best in a long line of Buñuel masterpieces.
Buñuel faz uma contundente crítica à burguesia através da sátira e do absurdo.
A deliciously sardonic black comedy in the best surrealistic tradition of auteur Luis Buñuel.
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Foreign Titles
- Der Würgeengel (DE)
- The Exterminating Angel (El Angel exterinador) (1962) (UK)
