Cinema: Host of Troubles

The Exterminating Angel. In a vast town house, a group of Mexico's beautiful people attend a formal dinner party. Clacking across marble floors, exchanging big smiles and small talk, they radiate the feeling that throughout their hermetically sealed world, all is well.

But below stairs, all is ill. One by one the servants quit the mansion in fear of something they never name. Only the butler is left to serve the shambles of a meal. Midnight comes and goes, but no guest makes a move to leave. At 4 a.m., before the horrified host, the guests loosen their jackets, gowns and coiffures...

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