Saturday, May 29, 2010

The Exterminating Angel

Luis Bunuel

The Spanish master's wildly surreal piece on the ineptitude of the privileged class. A group of rich "friends" gather for a meal after the opera and find they can't leave afterward. Their manners and personal hygiene deteriorate until they are reduced to savagery.

Wickedly satirical...subject to various interpretations and analyses...and just lots of fun to watch. The most successful of the European surreal works.

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