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The Exterminating Angel

El ángel exterminador

1962

Luis Buñuel

Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera ...

8.0

26,065

Drama 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Time	"The strongest of Bunuel's many strong films."	POS
United States	Joseph Morgenstern Newsweek	"Absolutely unforgettable (...) A magnificent film!"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"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."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"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)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"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)"	POS
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"[A] satiric masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"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."	POS

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