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The Exterminating Angel

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The Exterminating Angel (1962)

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Reviews Counted:18

Fresh:17

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: One of Luis Buñuel's finest films, filled with humor, political barbs and wildly strange events. Nobile, an upper-class gentleman, has invited a group of friends to his home for a post-opera... One of Luis Buñuel's finest films, filled with humor, political barbs and wildly strange events. Nobile, an upper-class gentleman, has invited a group of friends to his home for a post-opera dinner. But even before the guests arrive, something bizarre happens: all the servants are seized by an irresistible compulsion to walk out. And worse is yet to come: at the hour when everyone should depart, for some inexplicable reason no one can leave Nobile's drawing room. Although no physical barriers prevent them from exiting, they all halt at the door and turn back. As the food and water run out, and tensions rise, the group begins to argue amongst themselves... and soon they've abandoned any pretense of "good breeding" and "polite behavior". It's every man for himself and only the strongest survive. [More]

Starring: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rimbal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera

Starring: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rimbal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristein

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Luis Buñuel

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05/24/03
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Absurdity is relative; it requires a reality (or something less absurd) to be contrasted with.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
07/29/09
Christopher Long
Christopher Long
DVDTown.com

Bunuel's ultimate cosmic joke against meaning itself

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03/11/09
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk
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10/23/08
Variety
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One of the master director's most concentrated and unambiguous works.

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04/11/08
Donald J. Levit
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

In typical fashion, Buñuel offers no explanation, but the way your head spins around this simple premise makes each scene more fun than the last.

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06/29/06
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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03/18/06
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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10/10/05
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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Though less popular than other works, this is one of Bunuel's most philosophically profound and eccentric films, bearing undeniably disturbing effects on the viewers.

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07/06/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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03/05/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

A blistering attack on social classes and conventions, The Exterminating Angel may be the best in a long line of Buñuel masterpieces.

Full Review Source: Film and Felt | comment Comment
03/01/04
Gabe Leibowitz
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt

Buñuel faz uma contundente crítica à burguesia através da sátira e do absurdo.

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11/19/03
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

A deliciously sardonic black comedy in the best surrealistic tradition of auteur Luis Buñuel.

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10/16/03
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

If not necessarily Buñuel’s greatest film, this unclassifiable creation must count as one of the most twisted stunts ever mounted for the screen.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
09/07/03
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

One of Luis Bunuel's masterworks, The Exterminating Angel is a brilliant surrealist allegory about a group of socialites who, inexplicably find themselves unable to leave their host's house, and gradually degenerate into violence and depravity.

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07/30/03
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My feeling is that 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.

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05/20/03
Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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11/02/01
Mark R. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper
rec.arts.movies.reviews

I watched it and I don't know what it means either, but it's a hell of a movie.

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01/01/00
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

The great Spanish director Luis Bunuel traps us in the surrealistic universe of The Exterminating Angel, his most bitter, most brilliant work since Viridiana.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
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