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Viridiana

Viridiana

Luis Buñuel


  • Country: Spain
  • Year: 1961
  • Language: Spanish
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  • Runtime: 90 min.

Condemned by both the Vatican and the fascist Spanish government before winning the Palme d'or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, legendary Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel's delightfully lewd and deliciously cynical comedy follows a young novitiate who takes over her lecherous uncle's decaying estate and attempts to turn it into a model Christian community, and whose faith is put to the test when her "flock" of beggars and outcasts turns against her.

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screening times

    • Friday October 22
    • 9:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • Sunday November 14
    • 4:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

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official description

Condemned by both the Vatican and the fascist Spanish government before winning the Palme d'or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, legendary Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel's delightfully lewd and deliciously cynical comedy follows a young novitiate who takes over her lecherous uncle's decaying estate and attempts to turn it into a model Christian community, and whose faith is put to the test when her "flock" of beggars and outcasts turns against her. Though any number of films from Buñuel's half-century career could easily be named his greatest—from the infamous, joyfully scurrilous provocations Un Chien andalou and L'Âge d'or to such late-period masterpieces as The Discreet Charm of the BourgeoisieViridiana's denunciation by both dictator and pontiff proved that surrealism had (and has) lost none of its insurrectionary verve.

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