Word: viridiana
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Viridiana (Kingsley International). In the first reel of the first important film directed by Spain's Luis Bunuel, something surreal called Un Chien Andalou (1929), the camera watches closely as Bunuel himself opens a straight razor and with surgical precision slits a woman's eyeball. From that frame forward, Moviemaker Bunuel left no doubt in anybody's mind that he intends to open people's eyes. In his masterpiece, Los Olmdados (1950), he opened people's eyes to the horrors of poverty in the Mexican slums. In Viridiana, a strange but powerful film that contains...
Surprisingly, the film was actually made in Spain. Bunuel is an anarchist, but he is also the most famous Spanish moviemaker, so Franco invited him to come home after 25 years in exile and to shoot a picture with government funds. Bunuel accepted the offer, shot Viridiana. But before Franco's censors could take a whack at it, he smuggled the film out of the country. Shown at the Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Prize...