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The Exterminating Angel + Century City

Dir. Luis Buñuel
LIFF SPOTLIGHT - STUART CROFT: ETERNAL RETURN
Sat 2 Nov and Mon 4 Nov
Sat 2 Nov
and
Mon 4 Nov
  • Sat 2 Nov
    10:45 - 12:33
    Everyman Cinema Leeds, Leeds
    Screen 4
    Past event
  • Mon 4 Nov
    11:30 - 13:18
    Everyman Cinema Leeds, Leeds
    Screen 4
    Past event

In Luis Buñuel's classic satire of the upper classes, a group of wealthy friends are invited to a mansion for dinner after a night at the opera.

In this surrealist black comedy from the daring mind of director Luis Buñuel, a group of wealthy friends are invited to a mansion for dinner by Edmundo Nobile after a night at the opera. Surreal events follow and they find themselves unable to leave, leading to chaos. Buñuel’s comic masterpiece exposes the fallacy and frivolity of the upper classes. Screening as part of the Stuart Croft season with the artist’s short film Century City in which the murder of an actress prompts an illogical, circular phone conversation between a Cape Town detective and a Los Angeles movie director.

"A film in which Buñuel, with a surrealist aesthetic, magnifies a sharp satire on social classses and the chiaroscuros of the human condition." - Yasser Madina, Cinefilia

Content Guidance


Contains mild sex and drug references.

 

Director: Luis Buñuel
Running time: 108 minutes
Production year: 1962
Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Subtitles: English
Print source: Janus Films

Part of

Stuart Croft: Eternal Return

Films that inspired artist Stuart Croft’s unique vision, paired with his own looping moving image works