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The Exterminating Angel
Why this pick
Buñuel again turns a sealed-off social situation into dry, surreal cruelty, pairing deadpan ritual with escalating absurdity in the same compact, irreverent spirit.
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Its wandering, episodic encounters with religious doctrine echo Simon’s comic blasphemy, treating faith and dogma with a cool, playful surrealism.
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Why this pick
For the taste for Buñuel’s impeccable deadpan: social rituals repeatedly collapse into dreamlike non sequiturs, with polished surfaces masking a mordant absurdity.
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The Holy Mountain
Why this pick
A more visually extravagant spiritual satire, using shocking symbolic tableaux and sacrilegious humor to turn the quest for enlightenment into surreal spectacle.
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The Color of Pomegranates
Why this pick
Less comic but similarly anti-naturalistic, it replaces conventional narrative with enigmatic sacred imagery and stylized tableaux, extending Simon’s fascination with iconography into pure visual poetry.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Enrique Álvarez Félix
Brother Matías
Silvia Pinal
The Devil