The Exterminating Angel

Buy This Item The Exterminating Angel by Henstooth Video  Available from Amazon  $24.99  on 11-25-2008     I waited two years to buy this on Amazon. The price has always been $60+ until I recently found it for $16. (You got to love how prices for some of these films fluctuate--Amazon's very own micro-market economy.) Anyway . . . <br /> <br />So, I had been wanting to see this for a long time. The reviews were good, and I liked the premise of how these people gather for dinner, but can't leave. Anyway . . . <br /> <br />I was bored out of my mind! Not to mention I could only read about a third of the subtitles because of ingenious white lettering on frequent white background. I dozed off twice trying to get through this--had to rewind and rewatch. <br /> <br />Reading the reviews for this film was much enjoyable than actually watching the film itself. If you want to watch a good Bunuel film, go for Los Olvidados instead. Reader Reviews Shot in 1962 during his exile in Mexic provoked by the dictatorship of general Franco, " El angel exterminador " is a delicious radiography of the middle-class where the genial spanish filmmaker makes a dissection of their superstitions, rites, falses prejudices and fears with sarcastic humour and his surreal and thought-provoking imaginary. The film had originally to be entitled " Los naufragos de la calle nº 13 ", a very graphic commentary of the pathetic situation of their protagonists, but finally Buñuel prefered the most stimulating and sardonically biblic title of " The exterminating angel ". A group of bourgeoises joined around a supper party refuses obstinately to abandone the room hunted by an irrational panic, becoming so prisioners of themselves in a house whose doors are unlocked and where nobody hold them. Completely defenceless like childs without the help of the servants the time passes in their virtual prison and the masks begin to fall down and their most repressed instints come pathetically untied. Very, very recommendable.

The Exterminating Angel Available from Amazon Price: $24.99 Updated on 11-25-2008.

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