L'ange exterminateur

Titre original : El ángel exterminador

ÉVALUATION IMDb

8,0/10

36 k

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Liretrailer3 min 50 s

1 vidéo

99+ photos

Dark Comedy Drama Fantasy

Les invités d'une réception de la haute société se trouvent incapables de partir.Les invités d'une réception de la haute société se trouvent incapables de partir.Les invités d'une réception de la haute société se trouvent incapables de partir.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

8,0/10

36 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 4 victoires et 2 nominations au total

Leandro Gomez
(as Jose Baviera)

Augusto Benedico

Carlos Conde

Luis Beristáin

Cristián Ugalde
(as Luis Beristain)

Antonio Bravo

Sergio Russell

Claudio Brook

Julio mayordomo

César del Campo

Alvaro
(as Cesar Del Campo)

Rosa Elena Durgel

Silvia

Lucy Gallardo

Lucía de Nobile

Enrique García Álvarez

Alberto Roc
(as Enrique Garcia Alvarez)

Ofelia Guilmáin

Juana Avila
(as Ofelia Guilmain)

Nadia Haro Oliva

Ana Maynar

Tito Junco

Raúl

Xavier Loyá

Francisco Avila
(as Xavier Loya)

Xavier Massé

Eduardo
(as Xavier Masse)

Ofelia Montesco

Beatriz

Histoire

Modifier

Le saviez-vous

Modifier

Anecdotes
Luis Buñuel has publicly stated that he considers the film a failure and that if he had shot it later in Paris, he would have gone more extreme with it (cannibalism).

Gaffes
After the butler trips in the dining room, the lady of the house follows him into the kitchen. While they speak the boom mic can clearly be seen at the bottom of the screen, extending out from under a table.

Citations
Rita Ugalde: I believe the common people, the lower class people, are less sensitive to pain. Haven't you ever seen a wounded bull? Not a trace of pain.
[Creo que la gente del pueblo, la gente baja, es menos sensible al dolor. ¿Usted ha visto un toro herido alguna vez? Impasible]

Autres versions
In the uncut print (featured on the Criterion DVD) the guests enter the mansion and go upstairs twice. Some versions omit the surrealistic second arrival.

Connexions
Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le contrôle de l'univers (1999)

Bandes originales
Sonata No. 6
(uncredited)
Music by Pietro Domenico Paradisi

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9/10

The Ultimate Pandemic Movie

"The Exterminating Angel" is the ultimate COVID-19 pandemic movie.

A bunch of swells attend a dinner party. An offer made by the host to the guests to spend the night, an offer which everyone knows isn't supposed to be accepted, is, and, social codes being disrupted, calamity ensues. The guests become trapped together in the same room for four days, and their good manners and propriety gradually dissolve away until they're all acting like a bunch of savage lunatics.

Though made in the 1960s, "The Exterminating Angel," like all good films, is so astute about human nature that it feels as relevant now as it did then. The world seems full of a bunch of privileged people who have the luxury to go through life oblivious to the world around them. But then a pandemic hits, and they're freaking out about toilet paper.

I happened to watch this film a day or so after watching another Bunuel film, "Diary of a Chambermaid." Together, the two films serve as a withering denunciation of the middle class, whether it be in early 20th Century France, Spain of the 1960s, or the America of today.

Grade: A.