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Viridiana, una giovane novizia, abbandona il convento per andare ad assistere un vecchio zio ammalato. Giunta nell'immensa tenuta dello zio, si trova ad affrontare una realtà di cui non sospetta nemmeno l'esistenza: le morbose perversioni dello zio, l'ambiguo comportamento di una domestica, la furia cieca di un gruppo di mendicanti.
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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.
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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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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.
Viridiana was submitted to the Canne Film Festival where it won the Palm D'Or before being banned in Spain on grounds of blasphemy.
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Buñuel's coup
Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961, 90')
Spanish-Mexican motion picture produced by Mexican Gustavo Alatriste. Read more
Spanish-Mexican motion picture produced by Mexican Gustavo Alatriste. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dr René Codoni
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Unsatisfying, rather boring film with too obscure a drama at its core
A novice nun is held by her uncle at his country house so that he can marry her as a replacement for his dead wife. Read more
Published on 2 May 2011 by BS on parade
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An outstanding masterpiece
The blurb on the DVD box and the Amazon blurb, do not do this film much credit. It is an outstanding film that reminds me a bit of Weill/Brecht the Thruppenny Opera. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2009 by Denis Joe
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Welcome home
This is really a treat. A massive attack towards catholic church. Imagine that the same man had to flee to Mexico, where he made his first masterpieces in fourties and fifties. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2009 by Matti
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A special film from Buñuel
I like films directed by Luis Buñuel, I can find many details on them, and I can imagine many posibilities about his message. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2009 by Julio Reinoso
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A forgotten masterpiece worth discovering
Its a great shame that this film has become obscure, because I think its one of the triumphs of European cinema of the last century. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2009 by Mostly Harmless
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masterpiece
filmed in 1961 it was the return to spain to Buñuel. Criticized for others spanish in the exile, it was -is- a pandora's box for the dictator Franco. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2006 by juan gomez
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