Polyglot
25Apr12
Oh, no. Not even Belle De Jour?
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MrDickPump
26Apr12
Permitir que las escenas sean perturbadoras simplemente es un logro que Buñuel en su más exquisita expresión, quería (liricamente al parecer) degradar algo, que ya estaba degradado, y humanamente es infalible. Un nuevo respiro para verla de nuevo.
wolfmansRazor
17Apr12
An absurdist premise taken to its ferociously nasty, yet logical, conclusion. Bunuel distances us from the bourgeois characters and asks us to both laugh at their plight and suffer along with them. Of course, it's all precipitated by an exodus of the servants. When the servants refuse to serve their masters the social order will crumble, and the bourgeoisie will be revealed for the helpless leeches they are.
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Daniela
23Mar12
Luis Bunuel's been a big disappointment for me. I loved Simon of the Desert, but every feature I've watched by him since then has been downhill. I didn't find this artistic, entertaining, or remarkable in any sense of these words :/ . . .
Colton Bose
6Jan12
One of Buñuel’s greatest works, possibly his greatest. A marvelously brilliant piece of filmmaking that is overflowing with abrasively humorous surrealist touches.
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Howard Orr
1Jan12
A brilliant, underappreciated film, made before the often irrelevant showboating and faux sensationalism of his later films.
trolley freak
1Aug11
After a lavish upper class dinner party in a plush mansion, the guests are overcome with apathy and are unable to leave. As the days pass they become reduced to living like animals. I can't pretend to understand Bunuel's motivation for this film. Something allegorical about the futility of the upper classes most probably. But on a gut level I enjoyed it. In fact, I would go so far as to say it was surreally good.....
Kamran
8Jul11
Like with all great surrealist pictures, this film is an experience; the thoughts and emotions of the characters are conveyed to the audience in a sort of transference, you feel like they are feeling, and you think what they appear to be thinking. This is pure cinema; film as more than mere reproduction of reality; film with the capacity to go beyond what's real. 5/5
Harry Rossi
25Jun11
Its funny, its scary, its important and its masterfully done. What an odd concept and yet it's one of the most brilliant satires I've ever seen in my life. Loved it.
Jason Callen
23Jun11
A funny and terrifying looked at the fragility of our social structures and the reality of civility.
Linda Crisan
20Dec10
I fell asleep three times at Angel Exterminador. I would press play, da cappo, and my senses would be lulled- again. Good job I didn’t watch it at the cinematheque. Sleeping through most of a film will shape its merits differently. The last time I did watch the whole thing I found it annoying and irresistible.
Umberto L.
8Jul10
Was this supposed to be a condemn or a joke? A film about religion or about the human will? Would have Immanuel Kant enjoyed it? Personally, I don't care. Stendhal's syndrome from the beginning 'till the end!!
carolvidal
21Apr10
i love the scene when they open the water pipe to drink water, and they try to organize a line "women first" hahah hilarious
richmondhill
14Feb10
Almost a precursor for the motifs of entrapment in the later Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois, this is a satisfyingly claustrophobic deconstruction of middle class hypocrisy. The finale is suitably circular and mordantly amusing.
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