"The Exterminating Angel"
1962
Directed by Luis Bunuel

Winner of the Best Non-European Foreign Film from the Bodil International Film Festival.  A metaphorically rich and comic film, Exterminating Angel is the story of guests invited to an elegant dinner party who find they are unable to leave at the end of the evening. A mysterious force compels them to stay…and stay…and stay. After several days, their well-heeled social facades collapse as hunger, thirst, fear, and boredom send them into a frenzy. Bunuel stated that this film is "a metaphor, a deeply felt, disturbing reflection of the life of modern man, a witness to the fundamental preoccupations of our time." It is certainly one of Bunuel's greatest achievements. Spanish with English subtitles.
95 minutes.