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As mordant in its way as the slyly subversive movies Luis ����ñ�ܱ�� made in Mexico, Brocka’s two-fisted melodrama is a hellish, compelling work by a director whom the French critic Serge Daney, then editor of Cahiers du Cinéma, called “the great filmmaker of the ’70s.”

The hive of activity is the Palais, a massive complex by the sea full of cinemas with names like ����ñ�ܱ��, Bazin and, the granddaddy, the Grand Théâtre Lumière.

“The Exterminating Angel,” with a libretto by Adès and Tom Cairns adapted from Luis ����ñ�ܱ��’s surrealist film, is one of the finest operas of the century so far, alongside works by George Benjamin and Kaija Saariaho.

Lanthimos had some guiding references, including films like Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Luis ����ñ�ܱ��’s “Belle du Jour” and Fellini movies.

A theatrical dream team has been assembled for the premiere of “Here We Are,” the final work of Stephen Sondheim based on two Luis ����ñ�ܱ�� films.