This movie is enormously expansive, and reveals new things at different times and to different viewers... I think one could even say that 'The Exterminating Angel' is an anarchist re-rendering of 'Last Year at Marienbad'... It's tempting maybe to call this film, or these strains of films, as satires, but in Buñuel's hands, and given his disposition and world-view, I think it's something closer to... I was going to say "parody," but that's not it -- it's something closer to profanation.
Craig Keller
enero 1, 2012