The Exterminating Angel (El Ángel Exterminador)1967
The Exterminating Angel (El Ángel Exterminador) (1967)
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Cast
as Senora Alicia Roc
as Leandro
as Letitia, the Valkyrie
as Doctor
as Russell
as Beatriz
as Ana Maynar
as Francisco Avila
as Senor Roc
as Juana Avila
as Christian
as Julian the Majordomo
as Colonel
as Lucia Nobile
as Silvia
as Senor Roc
as Rita
as Blanca
as Leonora
as Esmundo Nobile
as Raul
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Critic Reviews for The Exterminating Angel (El Ángel Exterminador)
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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.
A macabre comedy, a mordant view of human nature that suggests we harbor savage instincts and unspeakable secrets.
'The Exterminating Angel' is a confrontation. Not only because of its clear political underpinnings, but because of a weird undercurrent of human sympathy.
It's one of the greater pleasures of the film that its surface-level plot is weird enough to watch it for the sheer joy of Surreal farce.
One of the most celebrated prizes of Mexican cinema.
The comedy is as black as an 8 Ball.
Audience Reviews for The Exterminating Angel (El Ángel Exterminador)
Buñuel clearly refuses to be subtle in this sharp allegorical satire (and because of that I only wish he had gone even further and embraced insanity and chaos all the way), using an absurd and quite ingenious idea to give a well-deserved slap on bourgeois values and hypocrisy.
Super Reviewer
This movie criticizes the strangeness of etiquette with a hyperbolic tale of social rules gone wrong. No one can convince themselves to leave, apparently because no one else has left. Its not as though these rules of propriety have turned us into sheep, its that we were sheep to begin with, and these individuals with their nuanced rules are self-blinded of the suffering society around them. As time passes, or is made entirely meaningless, civility is eroded and these people are revealed to be the horny, hungry, irritable and fearful animals found in the rest of the animal kingdom and social classes. It took someone with a bit of free spirit who very early in the movie, before the whole trapped issue, lashes out by breaking a window for no explicit reason. She locks herself in a closet. People are murmuring to each other how she's still a virgin. They try so hard to turn everyone else into sheep just like them. They are fortunate that they failed.
Super Reviewer
A weird satirical piece of work that's thoroughly watchable & fairly enjoyable. Surrealistic movies are generally not my cup of tea, but thankfully, there's more to it here than merely surrealism.
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