"The restraint and the air of everyday normality which surround the events of the film make the images even more surprising than in the old masterpiece (L'Age d'or)...Bu-uel, working with a 'psychic automatism,' gave joyous freedom to the caprices of his imagination, adding a whole world of images in the course of the shooting. In its language El Angel Exterminador still remains the most distinctly and completely Surrealist film since L'Age d'or, and, in the writer's opinion, is second only to that film in Bu-uel's oeuvre." --Francisco Aranda