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Extraordinarily powerful and imaginative. --The Spectator
Brilliant. --Roger Ebert
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A group of bourgeois cosmopolitans are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel's daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel. Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this is a furthering of Buñuel's wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes, full of eerie and hilarious absurdity.
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean Luis Buñuel
New interviews with filmmaker Arturo Ripstein and actress Silvia Pinal
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and a reprinted interview with Buñuel
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean Luis Buñuel
New interviews with filmmaker Arturo Ripstein and actress Silvia Pinal
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and a reprinted interview with Buñuel
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
When invited guests arrive for an elegant dinner party and find themselves unable to leave the dining room, Spanish surreal master Luis Bunuel, enters the undeworld of human desires and relations, peeling the crust of the burgoeis thinking and emancipating the subconcious of all the characters. After three days, hunger, thirst and desperation take over, leaving the semi-savage guests to undergo a formidable transformation of both, mind and spirit. After hearing the disturbing news, the social institutions (police, army, politicians, even other citizens) are unable to even enter the house, moved by the same invisible force. Filmed in 1962 and considered by many his greatest surreal film after L'age D'or, Exterminating Angel gives Bunuel a chance to go back to his cultural roots of the French Surrealism, not allowing culture, education, religion or other institutions to interfere with the content of characterization but to allow his characters to roam free like dreams or sometimes nightmares in a world of pre-fabricated emotions.
Arthur A. Sabina New York END
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By Donkey Dick
Format:VHS Tape
A brilliant concept if I've ever heard one, Bunuel's finest film involves a group at a dinner party who are inexplicably unable to go home. Absolutely nothing is holding them back -- doors are unlocked, there are no barriers -- but they just can't leave the house. Kind of a precursor to Godard's 1967 masterpiece, WEEKEND, we then witness socialites and the upper-class reduced to barbaric acts of desperation. Although Bunuel claims ANGEL has no literal meaning, his contempt for the rich has never been more obvious, and he would return to similar terrain with 1972's DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, where dinner guests find themselves unable to sit down and eat. Subtle surreal touches round off this film, as random scenes repeat for absolutely no reason and sheep run about the house; not to mention the frustratingly incomprehensible yet inexplicably appropriate final scenes.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
For those of you who have never seen a Luis Bunuel film, The Exterminating Angel is both an excellent beginning and one of his very best.
The famous dinner party. The guests that can't leave. The animals (human and otherwise). The dark house. The repeating scenes. All this and more await you.
But it's the camera work that really leaves no doubt that we are seeing the work of a master of masters of the cinema. LB moves right and left, in and out without changing the lens setting, which sets up an erie feeling in perfect relationship to the subject matter of the film. A film not to be missed, and a movie to take a chance on. You won't be disappointed.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
The Arrow Films Edition of "Exterminating Angel" does not play on...
The Arrow Films edition of "Exterminating Angel" is advertised as an "all region" DVD under "Product Details" and I bought it as such, expecting that it could be played in the USA... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Michael B. Green
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love it!
Great Movie! Full of Suspense! Worth the while watching! A true Classic! Highly Recommended Flick to for All to watch!!!
Published 2 months ago by ekleiber
5.0 out of 5 stars
My favorite Bunuel! A Masterpiece!
A college professor of mine, speaking of "The Exterminating Angel" prior to our veiwing it, told the class that this film should be X-rated! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Michael Waterman
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Everything I've most hated since I was a child - rudeness, violence,...
Since I don't boast a degree in psychology, my summing up of Luis Buñuel's freaky THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL pretty much goes like so: damn, what an odd movie. Read more
Published 6 months ago by H. Bala
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Exterminating Angel
Nearly 40 years have passed since first viewing Bunuel classic,still fascinates,tales within tales & Bunuel' comment on religion relevant to the Pythons - Spanish Inquisition... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Garry Evans
5.0 out of 5 stars
Let's Party Till Death Do Us Apart
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No one could throw a party on the screen like Don Luis Bunuel did - in his films people just can't get enough of the parties -... Read more
No one could throw a party on the screen like Don Luis Bunuel did - in his films people just can't get enough of the parties -... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Galina
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absurdist reviews...
I'll keep this very brief because there has been almost fifty years of discussion regarding this great film and I don't have anything new to add for the kinds of people who... Read more
Published on April 14, 2011 by Jon
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not my cup of tea.
Believe me, I get what THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL was all about. It was a retelling of LORD OF THE FLIES. But instead of preppy boys, it was about their parents. Read more
Published on March 19, 2011 by Ron
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Bear, Flocks of Sheep, A Disembodied Moving Hand
"The Exterminating Angel" is a film about a group of sophisticated, professional members of the haute bourgeoisie, who have presumably just been to the opera, and are now attending... Read more
Published on February 7, 2011 by Stephen C. Bird
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Exterminating Angel(1962)
The late Luis Bunuel was a famous surrealist film director. You can find his name in most dictionaries. Read more
Published on October 17, 2010 by Jorge A. Zarco
