MOVIE · 1962

The Exterminating Angel

ComedyDramaFantasy95 min

After a lavish dinner party at a mansion, a circle of wealthy guests finds that, for no clear reason, none of them can leave. In Luis Buñuel’s Spanish-language Mexican film, Silvia Pinal and Jacqueline Andere are part of an ensemble whose polished manners slowly give way under pressure. As the hours stretch into days, the house fills with hunger, suspicion, and strange images — sheep in the hallways, a bear on the grounds, water in short supply — while the rituals of upper-class respectability start to collapse inside a single room.