Word: viridiana
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...works of other prominent Spanish filmmakers such as Carlos Saura, Luis Bunuel, and Luis Berlanga will be shown. Bunuel's Viridiana (1961), one of only three films that the famous director was allowed to make in Spain, and which was banned in Spain at the time of its release, is "one of the landmarks of Spanish film," says Antonio Monegal, a graduate student in the Spanish department and former instructor of Spanish F, "Contemporary Spanish Film...
...wife of almost 50 years, we learn only that he married her in Paris (forbidding her family to attend), had lunch with her, then took a train alone to Madrid. On his 32 films the Aragonian curmudgeon throws little light; neither Los Olvidados nor Viridiana nor Belle de Jour receives as much space as he lavishes on his recipe for the perfect dry martini. Perhaps he is not being coy when he avers that his real life was in dreams, so many of which surfaced as blunt, seductive imagery in films from...
...Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most of Buñuel's later films. A vehement antifascist, he left Spain in 1938, later won a Cannes Festival Grand Prix for Viridiana (1961) and an Academy Award for his scathing The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). He said his films contained no deliberate symbolism but hedged, "Perhaps there are other meanings unknown by myself...
...shoe-string budget after more than ten years of enforced retirement from making movies. Dealing with street gangs in Mexico City, Bunuel displays here the same sardonic sensibility (combining psychoanalytic and sociological perspectives) which distinguishes the best of his later films, especially "Belle de Jour" and "Viridiana." This film, though technically more primitive, has the most raw emotional power, and contains perhaps the most effective dream sequence in any film I've seen...
...Viridiana. At the Brattle, nightly at 5:50 and 9:50. With The Nun, at 7:30, Sat-Sun matinees...