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The Exterminating Angel (Criterion Collection)

A group of highsociety friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), a daring masterpiece from Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie). Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers Buñuel's wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes. Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, José Baviera star. 93 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; documentary; interview; theatrical trailer. Restored highdefinition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Bluray The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring screenwriter JeanClaude Carrière and filmmaker Juan Luis Buñuel Interviews with actor Silvia Pinal and filmmaker Arturo Ripstein from 2006 Trailer.

BLURAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• Restored highdefinition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring writer JeanClaude Carrière and filmmaker Juan Luis Buñuel
• Interviews with actor Silvia Pinal and filmmaker Arturo Ripstein from 2006
• Trailer
• Format: Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Run Time: 94 minutes

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and an interview with director Luis Buñuel from the 1970s