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Cast

Jacqueline Andere
as Senora Alicia Roc

Jose Baviera
as Leandro

Silvia Pinal
as Letitia, the Valkyrie

Augusto Benedico
as Doctor

Antonio Bravo
as Russell

Ofelia Montesco
as Beatriz

Nadia Haro Oliva
as Ana Maynar

Javier Loya
as Francisco Avila

Enrico Garcia Alvarez
as Senor Roc

Ofelia Guilmain
as Juana Avila

Luis Beristáin
as Christian

Claudio Brook
as Julian the Majordomo

Cesar del Campo
as Colonel

Lucy Gallardo
as Lucia Nobile

Rosa Elena Durgel
as Silvia

Enrique García Álvarez
as Senor Roc

Patricia Morán
as Rita

Chel López

Patricia De Morelos
as Blanca

Bertha Moss
as Leonora

Enrique Rambal
as Esmundo Nobile

Tito Junco Sr.
as Raul

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• Jun 04, 2018

  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.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Jun 06, 2015

  I've been pretty conflicted on what to rate The Exterminating Angel, on one side I felt compelled to give it a "positive" rating and bump it up half a star, but then I look at other films I have given this rating and almost all of them are better. The issue I had with this film is it kind of goes in streaks, of scenes I love and scenes I find dispensable. When it began, it felt somewhat choppy- I later understood the purpose of this- but regardless that is the affect it gave, making it hard to get into. Once the story began about the group of bourgeoisie members trapped in tan upscale room, it had many funny lines and ironic scenes. But as the film went along I felt that I was trapped in the same prison the characters were in, and just like everyone in the room wanted to get away from these idiots. By the time the hallucinations began I started enjoying the comedic work again, but there was a long point in the film where I couldn't wait for it to end. While I found the comedy successful the surrealism was clear but not effective. I love surrealistic pieces like Eraserhead or Un Chien Andalou- which Bunuel himself contributed too. But all the ones I love are eerie, dark, and symbolic. The surrealism in The Exterminating Angel, silly and weird but not eerie, dark, or symbolic. Bunuel has two obsession in his films, Christianity and the bourgeoisie. While there are funny moments regarding both categories, I can't distinguish his statement on either. Was the point that the bourgeoisie were becoming the working class, they once couldn't understand? Are they now the ones that are trapped, like their inferiors were once? That's the most I understood, but even their I can't complete the puzzle.
  

  Daniel D Super Reviewer
• May 11, 2014

  I love that Buñuel takes these characters seriously while placing them in the most absurd of scenarios . . . like "Viridiana" this kind of consideration makes the satire more potent. I bet this film still makes members of the upper class angry.
  

  Alec B Super Reviewer
• Jul 02, 2012

  Very unusual but charmingly so. Oddly humourous and surprisingly captivating. Honestly had not heard of it until its mention in Midnight in Paris - very glad I did.
  Sunil J Super Reviewer

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