Viridiana1961
Both on Alice Rohrwacher’s Top 10, both directed by Luis Buñuel, and both starring Silvia Pinal
The Exterminating Angel
El ángel exterminador
Mexico / Spanish / 1962 / 1h 33m
- Criterion Collection
- Spine №459
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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.
