El ángel exterminador
The Exterminating Angel
“Aberrantly entertaining”
—Artforum
“Wicked, almost unclassifiable…”
—Slant Magazine
“..like a documentary about society”
—Alice Rohrwacher
The Exterminating Angel is a brilliantly open-ended allegory, set in an unnamed European capital where the guests at an elegant dinner party mysteriously find themselves unable to leave the living room. Social relations break down quickly as the servants disappear, the food supply runs out and basic human needs become impossible to fulfill. As tempting as it is to reduce the film to a metaphor for upper class decadence, Buñuel shakes off simple political interpretations by introducing a stream of undecipherable, dreamlike images while time itself seems to hiccup, as situations recycle and, at the climax, the film resets for a new beginning.
Remembering Silvia Pinal (1931-2024): An Icon of Mexican Cinema.
