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DVD ~ Silvia Pinal
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  • Actors: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Enrique Rambal
  • Directors: Luis Bunuel
  • Format: PAL
  • Language Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Arrow Films
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Aug 2006
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000GI36AW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,293 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A dinner party finds a group of well-behaved guests unable to leave. As the days pass their behaviour becomes more animal-like. Eventually they are able to gain entrance to the local church where once again their freedom is denied them. Spanish dialogue with subtitles.

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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A major flaw, 10 Oct 2006
By N. Lalonde "nlalonde5" (Montreal) - See all my reviews
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One of Bunuel's best films, even if it could have been even better, if he would have waited ten years to produce it with greater actors and technique. But the problem here is that there are two very important scenes missing: the guests that will be unable to leave the party should have been seen entering the house twice (Yes, it's absurd, but it has a profound link with the fact that they can't leave.) This DVD unfortunately did cut both of the scenes, as if they were an error. Unforgivable.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Surreal, Dark, and Funny Satire, 14 Sep 2006
By Green Man Music "green-man-music" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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As a dinner party for wealthy arostocrats is beginning, the hosts are suddenly faced with an inexplicable mass walkout as one by one their staff leave, each with their own reason. As the evening draws to a close, equally inexplicably, none of the guests find themselves able to leave. Breaking all their social taboos they all sleep on the floor in the dining room, beginning to become violent, lustful and degenerate as the days wear on. A crowd gathers outside, and equally none of the trapped partygoers' friends or relatives find themselves able to get in.

This is a great story; it plays out like a film-length version of one of the older style "Twilight Zone" episodes, and also has the lovely sting in the tail that goes with it. There are some surreal moments as well, including the random appearences of a bear and sheep inside the house and a disembodied floating hand.

There are clear stabs here by the director at what he sees as the aloofness of certain social groups considering themselves more civilised then others; the aristocracy, the masons, and the church.

Filmed in the 1960s in black and white and with subtitles to the Spanish dialogue, none of this detracts from a great story and an engrossing film.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Surreal and dark, 29 Aug 2006
By P. Sanders "prhsuk" (Belfast) - See all my reviews
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I first saw this film about 10 years ago when i was at college and have been waiting a long time for it to come out on DVD. "The Exterminating Angel" is an attack on wealth and religion. A wealthy dinner party slowly descends into madness as the servants run away and the guests discover they are unable to leave. No physical force prevents them from going - it's just that someone tries to leave they inexplicably change their mind. The same is true for anyone trying to enter. As the outside world becomes fascinated by their plight, the guests descend into hunger, rage and madness, losing all the airs and graces that make them "civilised" and "respectable".

The film never reveals the cause of the strange curse, but the title implies some kind of divine punishment. The film is still startling today, particularly a macabre hallucination in which a woman is menaced by a disembodied hand.

A surreal classic.
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