A group of bourgeois friends are trapped in a house after a dinner party. Some type of mysterious force does not allow them to leave a room. There, a few days later, their social behavior masks fall down, revealing persons very selfish, rottenness, confessions about their friendship and a 'bad smell': most of them stinks. They survive, through the sacrifice of some lambs, and in the end, everything and everybody returns to the same initial position and they leave the place.
"El Ángel Exterminador" is an intriguing and weird surrealist and metaphoric film that criticizes the behavior of the bourgeois class. This challenging film exerts some type of spell on the viewer that makes him love it. The film looks like a dream (or nightmare) with a spectacular restored photography in black & white and wonderful shadows. The essence of the story is very clear, with the hypocrite bourgeois class trapped in their world, changing positions but without leaving their social class and sacrificing lambs to survive and in the end returning to the same initial position in the world. But who is "The Exterminating Angel" from the title? An angel punishing the upper class? My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "O Anjo Exterminador" ("The Terminator Angel")
"El Ángel Exterminador" is an intriguing and weird surrealist and metaphoric film that criticizes the behavior of the bourgeois class. This challenging film exerts some type of spell on the viewer that makes him love it. The film looks like a dream (or nightmare) with a spectacular restored photography in black & white and wonderful shadows. The essence of the story is very clear, with the hypocrite bourgeois class trapped in their world, changing positions but without leaving their social class and sacrificing lambs to survive and in the end returning to the same initial position in the world. But who is "The Exterminating Angel" from the title? An angel punishing the upper class? My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "O Anjo Exterminador" ("The Terminator Angel")