The Exterminating Angel

When a bourgeois group discover they are inexplicably trapped at a dinner party, they begin to turn in on their posturing, decadent ways., In this jet black and surreal comedy, a formal dinner party starts out normally enough. After the sophisticated guests retire to the host’s exquisite music room, they find that they cannot leave. Hours pass and then days, and as the time plods by, disturbing changes in the formerly-genteel guests occur., Luis Bunuel’s allegory of the privileged class, about a group of friends trapped at a dinner party by their own inertia. Jacqueline Andere. Leandro: Jose Baviera. The Walkyrie: Silvia Pinal. Doctor: Augusto Benedico. Russell: Antonio Bravo. Cristian: Luis Beristain. Majordomo: Claudio Brook., Written and directed by Luis Buñuel, this is a beautiful allegorical fantasy as a rich group of Mexican aristocrats gather for a formal dinner but then find themselves unable to leave the room. As the hours and then days pass, so they are stripped of every veneer of civilisation until lust, greed and superstition are their driving forces.