
Exterminating Angel, The (BLU-RAY)
A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador). Made just one year after the director’s international sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie comic absurdity, continues Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and filmmaker Juan Luis Buñuel
- Interviews with actor Silvia Pinal and filmmaker Arturo Ripstein from 2006
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and an interview with Luis Buñuel from the 1970s
Cover by Neil Kellerhouse