The Exterminating Angel
– The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel ..
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view of human nature suggesting "mankind harbors savage instincts and unspeakable secrets". It is considered one of the best 1,000 films by The New York Times.
21 Aug 1967
Spanish
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel (screenplay by), Luis Alcoriza (story by), Luis Buñuel (story by)
Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals...
3 wins & 1 nomination.
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