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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of Bunuel's best films.,
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This review is from: Viridiana [1961] [DVD] (DVD)
Viridiana has the reputation for being a blasphemous film which in reality is unfounded. Bunuel never felt the film was intentionally blasphemous. The film is however critical of what appears the limited scope of charity or doing good which will ultimately be unable to affect much change to the world at large. Luis Bunuel who had been in exile in Mexico was invited back to Spain by Franco to make a film to which Luis Bunuel agreed and made Viridiana in a way ridiculing or critising the 'charity' afforded him. Bunuel was astute enough to be aware of the futility of his own criticism. In the film Jorge criticises Viridiana attempts while he fails to notice all the other dogs in need of rescuing too. He is saying that while Viridiana or the Church or Governments may have the best intentions they are inevitably doomed to failure because life and the world is ultimately chaotic. Bunuel's use of metaphor in many scenes as a narrative technique is an example of his excellent subtle ability which is not always that evident in his later films.
Viridiana was submitted to the Canne Film Festival where it won the Palm D'Or before being banned in Spain on grounds of blasphemy.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The return,
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This review is from: Viridiana [1961] [DVD] (DVD)
This has to be one of the most memorable films ever made.It's a shocking attack on the Catholic Church and Spain.There is a kind of dream-like boldness to a lot of the narrative,an electric passage between images.There is symbolism by the bucket-load,the failed Republic,the wife who died on her wedding day,and modern Spain as an estate run to seed.There are individual images, the bee rescued from a water barrel,a dog running beneath a cart,a cat pouncing on a rat.The theme of the naivety of do-gooding vs the reality of human nature,greed and selfishness.Bunuel connects the audience to more earthy,pragmatic drives throwing off the hypocrisy of organized religion in the process,due to it being out of touch with our needs.The parody of the Last Supper and Pinal's rape by a beggarly Christ are unforgettable.Even more subversive is her new secular role in a menage-a-trois in a final game of cards.An all time masterwork.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Spectacular, surreal and a bit pervy,
By Tricky fan "trickyfan" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Viridiana [1961] [DVD] (DVD)
If you're not devoutly and happily religious then just watch it, especially for the cracking Last Supper scene, and that it was completely inappropriate for Franco, who first commissioned it. Life painted as messy, ugly and hilariously gauche as it really is.
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