This Friday, as previously mentioned, the LACMA "Through the Looking Glass" film series presents Spain's greatest director Luis Bunuel's Exterminating Angel.
(1962/b&w/95 min.) Scr: Luis Buñuel, based on a play by José Bergamín; dir: Luis Buñuel; w/ Silvia Pinal.
"After an opera performance, members of Mexico's elite are invited to a dinner party at a mansion on "Calle de la Providencia" but find themselves incapable of leaving the house at night's end. An inexplicable force similarly drives the servants home, and as the days pass and the food and water run out, the trapped-Luis Buñuel called them "shipwrecked"-bourgeoisie quickly descend into savagery. No description of the plot can evoke the black humor and strange poetry that Buñuel weaves into this premise; it is certainly one of the eeriest and most memorable films ever made."
I'm planning on going to see this one. Anyone else interested in going?
5 comments:
I really want to see this. Where do we get tickets?
I'll order some tickets tonight after seeing how many people definitely want to go. I strongly encourage people to see this film -- it may not be one of Bunuel's absolute masterpieces but it's a fascinating political satire. For those that only know Bunuel as the director of Un Chien Andalou, this film is nothing like that. Personally, Bunuel is one of my five or so directors of all time.
This looks good, I'd like to go.
I want to go too.
i want to go also...what time is it on friday?
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