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Features: DVD, Spanish, English, Black & White
Editor's Note
The invited guests at an elegant dinner party find a mysterious force compels them not to leave. After several days hunger and thirst set in and the guest start to fall apart.
Plot Summary
One of Luis Buñuel's finest films, filled with humor, political barbs and wildly strange events.| Nobile, an upper-class gentleman, has invited a group of friends to his home for a post-opera dinner. But even before the guests arrive, something bizarre happens: all the servants are seized by an irresistible compulsion to walk out.| And worse is yet to come: at the hour when everyone should depart, for some inexplicable reason no one can leave Nobile's drawing room. Although no physical barriers prevent them from exiting, they all halt at the door and turn back.| As the food and water run out, and tensions rise, the group begins to argue amongst themselves... and soon they've abandoned any pretense of "good breeding" and "polite behavior". It's every man for himself and only the strongest survive.
| Features | Source: Image Entertaiment Inc. |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 2/10/2009 |
| Running Time: 94 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1962 | | Catalog ID: 1785 | | UPC: 00715515035026 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Spanish | | Available Audio Tracks: Spanish | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: B&W |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...Surreal....THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL is fantasy filmmaking..." 04/25/1996 p.F3Chicago Sun-Times
"...Luis Bunuel's THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL is a macabre comedy, a mordant view of human nature....He created a world so particular, it is impossible to watch any Bunuel film for very long without knowing who its director was..." 05/11/1997 p.5 New York Times
"[THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL is] among the most free-spirited of Bunuel's films, fully recovering the nonnarrative liberty of his earliest work." 02/06/2009 |
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