The Exterminating Angel
El ángel exterminador
Mexico • 1962
Director
#459Criterion Collection →Synopsis
A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (EL ÁNGEL EXTERMINADOR). Made just one year after the director’s international sensation VIRIDIANA, this film, full of eerie comic absurdity, continues Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.
Synopsis
A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (EL ÁNGEL EXTERMINADOR). Made just one year after the director’s international sensation VIRIDIANA, this film, full of eerie comic absurdity, continues Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.
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Credits
Crew
DirectorLuis Buñuel
WriterLuis Buñuel
CinematographerGabriel Figueroa
ComposerRaúl Lavista
EditorCarlos Savage
ProducerGustavo Alatriste
Cast
Silvia Pinalas Leticia 'La Valkiria'
Jacqueline Andereas Alicia Roc
Claudio Brookas Butler Julio
Enrique Rambalas Edmundo Nóbile
