March 12 — IUPUI Film Club presents a surreal double feature of “The Exterminating Angel” and “Simon of the Desert”

Two of the best by the great Surrealist Luis Buñuel.

When: Thu. March 12 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Where: IUPUI Nursing Building room 103.

Free and Open! For more information contact Tess Saunders or Wes Felton.

The IUPUI Film Club presents:Surreal Double Feature - Bunuel’s The Exterminating Angel (1962) and Simon of the Desert (1965)

The wicked bourgeois horror film The Exterminating Angel is considered by many to be Buñuel’s crowning achievement. In the film, members of Mexico’s bourgeois are invited to a dinner party at a mansion and for some unexplained reason find themselves incapable of exiting the house by night’s end. The Exterminating Angel plays out like a perverted disaster flick. Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Yet the devil, in the figure of the beautiful Silvia Pinal, huddles below, trying to tempt him down.