The Exterminating Angel (#459)

A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave, in Luis Buuels daring masterpieceThe Exterminating Angel(El ngel exterminador). Made just one year after the directors international sensationViridiana,this film, full of eerie comic absurdity, continues Buuels wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.

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Film Info

• Mexico
• 1962
• 93 minutes
• Black & White
• 1.33:1
• Spanish
• Spine #459

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buuel,a 2008 documentary featuring screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrire and filmmaker Juan Luis Buuel
• Interviews with actor Silvia Pinal and filmmaker Arturo Ripstein from 2006
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and an interview with Luis Buuel from the 1970s

  Cover by Neil Kellerhouse