José Calvo

Mariane 2022-03-25 09:01:15

Loosely based on Benito Pérez Galdós' novel HALMA (uncredited though), Buñuel's Palme d'Or winner VIRIDIANA, an honor shared with Henri Colpi's THE LONG ABSENCE (1961), can brazenly make anyone endowed with a common moral sense feel uneasy because it stoutheartedly touches a raw nerve in its...

Shaun 2022-03-25 09:01:15

One of Buñuel's religious trilogy, a very wonderful masterpiece. The pious and pure nuns provided food and accommodation for the homeless and sick beggars in the surrounding villages out of selflessness and kindness after the death of their uncles, and called them to divide their labor to build a...

Stanford 2022-03-26 09:01:10

Viewed at the Spanish film exhibition, Medieval nuns dedicated to the cause of the poor, Miller-style Vespers in which nuns call the poor, cousins ​​who develop capitalist agriculture, maids who surrender to cousins, infighting of the poor, failure to save, and the rich Only caring about the dog, the burnt crown of thorns, ended with the three playing cards, which was abruptly stopped. The plot of the poor man sneaking into the mansion for a banquet is amazing, the actors are literally painted saints and holy fools, imitating the Last Supper, the Renaissance has entered the Christian tradition, and it is a perfect Catholic element.

Michale 2022-03-20 09:02:23

8.6 The last scene is full of black humor and absurdity. The broken Catholic nun plays cards with the bourgeois romantic boy and his peasant-working mistress with pop music. Ideologically, the proletarian hooligans tore through the cloak of Catholic hypocrisy, and the last scene hinted at the peace between the bourgeoisie and Catholicism.