El Angel Exterminador
Luis Buñuel
Edmundo and Lucía de Nobile give a reception in their luxurious town house. As the evening comes to an end, and the guests are preparing to go, something strange happens to the little community. Inexplicably, none of the guests can manage to leave and everyone finds themselves captives in the house...
With : Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristáin, Claudio Brook, Antonion Bravo
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza
Image : Gabriel Figueroa
Sound : José B. Carles
Music : Raúl Lavista, à partir d'extraits de Scarlatti, Beethoven et Chopin
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Carlos Savage
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza
Image : Gabriel Figueroa
Sound : José B. Carles
Music : Raúl Lavista, à partir d'extraits de Scarlatti, Beethoven et Chopin
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Carlos Savage
Production : Gustavo Alatriste
"Hell is other people" said Sartre. No other phrase could sum up the idea of the film better. In En Angel Exterminador (The Exterminating Angel), Buñuel films impediments, stumbling blocks, without sacrificing the need to explain situations rationally, a standpoint he also takes in Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) "Liberty is a ghost. I seriously thought that and I have always thought it. It is a phantom in the mist. Man pursues it, thinks he has caught it, and all he has left in his hands is vapour". (Luis Buñuel) The Buñuel of later years appears significantly in this film. The camera movements are more frequent and more supple, sticking perfectly to the mysticism of the film. Two of Buñuel's faithful collaborators too part in this major film: scriptwriter Luis Alcoriza (who wrote Los Olvidados (The Forgotten), and the director of photography Gabriel Figueroa.