The Exterminating Angel

The Exterminating Angel

1962 · 94 min · ES · NR · 8.0 (589 votes)
Dir. Luis Buñuel · Starring Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Claudio Brook, Enrique Rambal, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico · Music Raúl Lavista

The degeneration of high society!

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After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.

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This film feels like a bizarre, elegant nightmare, slowly tightening its grip. It's a darkly comedic and unsettling experience, observing the unraveling of polite society under an inexplicable, surreal spell. The atmosphere is one of growing absurdity and claustrophobia, a pointed critique wrapped in a dreamlike logic.

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