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The Exterminating Angel

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Original title: El ángel exterminador
Year: 1962
Running time: 90 min.
Country: Mexico
Director: Luis Buñuel
Screenwriter: Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza
Music: Raúl Lavista
Cinematography: Gabriel Figueroa (B&W)
Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Claudio Brook, César del Campo, Antonio Bravo
Producer: Producciones Alatriste
Genre: Drama | Satire. Surrealism. Cult Movie
Synopsis: High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party. The uncomfortable situation extends far beyond the limits of their patience and survival instincts start to arise.

Rankings Position

#2 Best Mexican Movies of all time
#123 Best Drama Movies

Awards: 1962: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or/Golden Palm (Best Film)

Critics' reviews

"The strongest of Bunuel's many strong films."

Time
"Absolutely unforgettable (...) A magnificent film!"

Joseph Morgenstern: Newsweek
"Buñuel stages this play with cumulating nervousness and occasional explosive ferocities (...) 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."

Bosley Crowther: The New York Times
"The great Spanish director Luis Bunuel traps us in the surrealistic universe of 'The Exterminating Angel', his most bitter, most brilliant work since 'Viridiana' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"[A] satiric masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"

Jake Cole: Slant
"Luis Buñuel's 1962 film takes an old Mexican proverb —'After 24 hours, corpses and guests smell bad'— and turns it into a marvelous satire on the life of the bourgeoisie."

Don Druker: Chicago Reader
"This satire of the bourgeoisie is definitely one of Bunuel's more surreal and indecipherable contributions but a superb example of it's kind (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

David Parkinson: Empire

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52 My Favorite Movies from Europe & Latin America (44)
83 My 10 favorite Film Directors and my favorite movie of each one of them (62)
89 Movies I Like But Wouldn't Recommend to Everyone (30)
100 My Favorite Cult Classics (83)

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