No one could throw a party on the screen like Don Luis Bunuel did - in his films people just can't get enough of the parties - they either can't get started ("The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie") or they are so sumptuous that the guests would never leave - in a perfect companion piece to the Discreet Charm.., "The Exterminating Angel" (1962), very funny comedy with very dark (as usual for Bunuel) humor. The funniest part is that nobody forces the guests to stay, nobody holds a gun to their heads or blackmails them. They just don't have a willpower to open the door and go outside where the police, family members, and press are waiting...not be able to make few steps to the party house and open the door from outside....
Once again Bunuel proves that he is one of just a few artists who could tell the same joke over and over again and get away with it creating the film as perplexing, absurdist, bizarre and in the same time irresistibly funny and clever as "The Exterminating Angel". Simply perfect.
Once again Bunuel proves that he is one of just a few artists who could tell the same joke over and over again and get away with it creating the film as perplexing, absurdist, bizarre and in the same time irresistibly funny and clever as "The Exterminating Angel". Simply perfect.