Viridiana

Viridiana is a Mexican film of Luis Buñuel, left in 1961, Palme of gold of the Cannes festival 1961.

Synopsis

Viridiana soon will pronounce its wishes and will be locked up in a convent. It comes last once to greet her uncle, rich middle-class, before going to pronounce its wishes. The uncle the Drug and made pretense misuse it so that it accepts to marry it. She refuses horrified. Corroded by the remorse, it gives itself death.

Heiress of the field with her cousin, Viridiana gives up the cloister and decides to devote her life and her property to the poor. One evening of festival, people whom it helped saoûlent, plunder the house and try to violate their bienfaitrice.

Saved by her cousin it yields to his charms and agrees at the end to settle with him and the maidservant in an eternal triangle.

Comment

Continuous Buñuel to regulate its accounts with the oppression which it underwent in its youth and approaches its preferred topics: the sexual Fetishism and the Inceste, the Hypocrisy of the Church, the silly thing and the sufficiency of the middle-class, popular bestiality.

The “Cène” where the Christ and her apostles are replaced by beggars remains a monument of provocation.

Data sheet

Scenario: Shine Buñuel and Julio Alejandro

Distribution

Silvia Pinal
Francisco Rabal
Fernando Rey
Claudio Brook (not credited)
Jose Calvo
Margarita Lozano

Around film

With Cannes, the film makes scandal, but gains the Palme of gold.
the the Vatican, like Free, considered film impious and blasphématoire. In Spain, the copies of film were seized.

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