Alex Gibney on The Exterminating Angel

Alex Gibney on The Exterminating Angel: “There’s one scene where two maids are about to go out the front door, and then they see all the guests arriving, and they quickly skitter back. They hide until the guests arrive and then they move quickly out the front door, exactly like rats leaving a sinking ship. So there’s a wonderful and delicious irony, and he plays it so straight in those scenes. When the mistress of the house finds out they’re doing this, she gets all huffy. “Haven’t you liked working here?” “Yes, ma’am, of course I have, but I’m afraid I must leave.” You’re giving up a job you’ve had for five years for mysterious reasons you can’t really understand? There’s something wonderfully comical and mysterious about it.”