A young novice nun’s charitable visit to her uncle’s estate spirals into a confrontation with desire, power and moral hypocrisy. Directed by the father of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, VIRIDIANA subverts religious imagery and bourgeois virtue through a blend of dreamlike aesthetics, dark satire and unsettling realism. Controversial upon its release and famously condemned by the Vatican, it remains a landmark of Spanish Surrealist cinema and a searing critique of human pretension. In Spanish w/ subtitles.
Director Luis Buñuel
Cast Silvia Pinal
Country Mexico
Language Spanish (with subtitles)
Aspect 1.66