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Viridiana. Made in Spain on Franco's money but banned in Spain by Franco's decree, this peculiar and powerful film by Luis Buńuel predicts in parable the next Spanish revolution, and contains an orphic orgy of Goyesque genius...
Alarcon's hero is an impossibly noble, handsome and athletic young caballero named Manuel who is thwarted in his desire to marry Soledad, the daughter of the town moneylender. This pinch-souled Shylock, whose exactions drove Manuel's father to his death, not only blocks Man uel's marriage but informs him that part of his father's huge debt is still unpaid. In the best Andalusian tradition, Manuel leaves town to seek his fortune, vowing to return, pay the debt, marry Soledad - and throttle any man who has looked...
...Mexico's The Young One, made by Director Luis Buñuel, somewhat unoriginally followed the progress of a game warden (Zachary Scott) as he successfully arouses the sexual appetite of a 13-year-old girl...
...refuses, but his wife decides to go. She puts the baby in her husband's arms. "Now," she says softly, "you have a cow." The Roots, for seriousness and intensity of feeling, is possibly the strongest motion picture that has been made in Mexico since Luis Buñuel turned out Los Olvidados, and The Cows is clearly the strongest of the film's four episodes. It has the strength of righteous anger, but it has anger's weakness, too. It overstates its case. The Mexican Indian is often poor, but in the villages he is seldom...
...Young and the Damned. A savage juvenile delinquency drama with a largely amateur cast, filmed in Mexico by Spain's Luis Buñuel (TIME, March...