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The Exterminating Angel is a mexicain film of genre Drama directed by Luis Buñuel released in USA on 10 september 1963 with Silvia Pinal

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

El ángel exterminador

The Exterminating Angel
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Released in USA 10 september 1963
Length 1h33
Directed by
OriginMexique
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Fantasy
Rating79% 3.998593.998593.998593.998593.99859

The Exterminating Angel (Spanish: El ángel exterminador), is the second Buñuel film of the Buñuel/Alatriste/Pinal film trilogy, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal, and produced by her then-husband Gustavo Alatriste.

It is considered by Mexican film critics as the 16th best film of the Mexican cinema and one of the best 1000 films by the New York Times.

The Exterminating Angel was released on R4 DVD by Madman Entertainment's Directors Suite in 2006. The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD in 2009.

Synopsis

During a formal dinner party at the lavish mansion of Señor Edmundo Nobile and his wife, Lucia, the servants unaccountably leave their posts until only the major-domo is left. After dinner the guests adjourn to the music room, where one of the women, Blanca, plays a piano sonata. Later, when they might normally be expected to return home, the guests unaccountably remove their jackets, loosen their gowns, and settle down for the night on couches, chairs and the floor.

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