The Exterminating Angel

country

Mexico

Director

Luis Buñuel

Year

1962

Run time

93 min

Awards/Main Selection

Cannes 1962 FIPRESCI, Bodil Award for Best Non-European Film

Genre

Drama

A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador). Made just one year after the director’s international sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie comic absurdity, continues Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.