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THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (El Ángel exterminador) |
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The great screen surrealist Luis Buñuel co-wrote and directed this dark, bitterly witty satire. A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have gone away, and for some reason they cannot leave. There is no explanation why — there are no locked doors or barred windows preventing them from going home — but the guests are convinced they are stranded. Left to their own devices, they slowly but gradually degenerate into genteel savagery, taking an axe to a water pipe for drinking water, killing and eating a sheep that was to be part of the post-dinner entertainment, hiding the bodies of dead guests in the closet, dabbling in witchcraft, and burning the furniture. | ||||
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UN CHIEN ANDALOU |
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The result of a collaboration between Luis Buñuel and surrealist artist Salvadore Dalí, Un Chien Andalou shocked the world nearly eighty years ago and continues to do so today. A must see for anyone interested in the history of cinema, Buñuel’s first film is second to none as a visual feast or perhaps more appropriately, a visual assault. Its lack of temporal and narrative coherence is an effort to convey the world of dreams, where logic and linearity do not necessarily prevail. It revealed to the world Buñuel’s favourite themes and obsessions that would appear throughout his long and illustrious film career; anti-bourgeoisie, anti-authority, anti-tradition, and anti-Church.
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Packed with dark, offhand humor, casually bizarre images, twisted dream sequences, and a simple but deceptively intelligent visual style." — Mark Deming, All Movie Guide