The Exterminating Angel (The Criterion Collection)

Product Description A group of bourgeois cosmopolitans are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel's daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel. Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this is a furthering of Buñuel's wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes, full of eerie and hilarious absurdity. SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES: New, restored high-definition digital transfer The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean Luis Buñuel New interviews with filmmaker Arturo Ripstein and actress Silvia Pinal Theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and a reprinted interview with Buñuel Review Extraordinarily powerful and imaginative. --The Spectator Brilliant. --Roger Ebert