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The Exterminating Angel

A guide to the film that inspired Act II of Sondheim's Here We Are

Mar 23, 2025
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The worst party guest is the one who won’t leave. Unless, of course, they can’t leave—a predicament that transforms Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel from social satire into existential horror.

[Please be aware that plot details for The Exterminating Angel, and therefore certain aspects of Here We Are’s second act, follow.]

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