459 - The Exterminating Angel (1962)

When 20 or so upper class reveler’s end up at a post-opera gathering hosted by one of their peers, everything seems perfectly… polite.  But then director Luis Buñuel imparts upon them the one unbreakable rule of the film: no one can ever leave the well-appointed drawing room.  Ever.  What follows is a study in the logistics of human survival, depravity, and an allegory of the lies we tell ourselves as we sink into fascism.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing’s Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China (1991).