Director: Luis Bunuel
Writer: Luis Bunuel, Julio Alejandro, Benito Perez Galdos
Language: Spanish
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle who rapes her. The uncle commits suicide the day after. Viridiana decides to stay in the house taking poor people into her care. She is joined in the house by uncle's son who was conceived outside the marriage.
Franco, Spanish dictator, invited back Bunuel from exile to do a film and this was Bunuel's message to him and religious charities. Franco was furious with the film and he tried to block it from Cannes. He was unsuccessful and it won Palme d'Or at Cannes. The point raised by Bunuel in this film is poignant and is very relevant to our times. I could especially relate it to the aid given to African countries which just leads to corruption and lack of cooperation and trade between African countries.
The film is not surrealistic like other Bunuel films.
Rating: 3.5/5
Writer: Luis Bunuel, Julio Alejandro, Benito Perez Galdos
Language: Spanish
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle who rapes her. The uncle commits suicide the day after. Viridiana decides to stay in the house taking poor people into her care. She is joined in the house by uncle's son who was conceived outside the marriage.
Franco, Spanish dictator, invited back Bunuel from exile to do a film and this was Bunuel's message to him and religious charities. Franco was furious with the film and he tried to block it from Cannes. He was unsuccessful and it won Palme d'Or at Cannes. The point raised by Bunuel in this film is poignant and is very relevant to our times. I could especially relate it to the aid given to African countries which just leads to corruption and lack of cooperation and trade between African countries.
The film is not surrealistic like other Bunuel films.
Rating: 3.5/5
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