Viridiana - Criterion Collection
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Movie Reviews of Viridiana - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: To take on a deserted island
Summary: 5 Stars
If there were only two movies ever made and they were Viridiana and Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, I wouldn't miss any of the rest.Movie Review: Splendors and Miseries of a Virgin
Summary: 5 Stars
Exiled from the safety of the convent, Viridiana is forced to see the world in its magnificent perversity and savagery. Since this is a Bunuel movie and even the chaste Viridiana is not entirely innocent. Her religious rituals borders on the sadomasochistic. Is Bunuel suggesting a parallel between religious and sexual ecstacties? And what's up with Viridiana's uncle's morbid fetish? When the camera follows a group of beggars, it finds them violating the space and honor of their benefactress. The scene climaxes into a mock reenactment of the Last Supper. Everyone's a Judas.Viridiana is the work of a Spanish discontent. This film (re)viewer found it the most 'Spanish' of his movies, in which Bunuel statement that 'every one of his films are meant to be pornographic' comes into lucid fruition. What could be more pornographic than seeing an innocent, holy fool degraded into seeing the world as it really is? The final scene explains it all. A masterpiece.Movie Review: Splendors and Miseries of a Virgin
Summary: 5 Stars
Exiled from the safety of the convent, Viridiana is forced to see the world in its magnificent perversity and savagery. Since this is a Bunuel movie and even the chaste Viridiana is not entirely innocent. Her religious rituals borders on the sadomasochistic. Is Bunuel suggesting a parallel between religious and sexual ecstacties? And what's up with Viridiana's uncle's morbid fetish? When the camera follows a group of beggars, it finds them violating the space and honor of their benefactress. The scene climaxes into a mock reenactment of the Last Supper. Everyone's a Judas.Viridiana is the work of a Spanish discontent. This film (re)viewer found it the most 'Spanish' of his movies, in which Bunuel statement that 'every one of his films are meant to be pornographic' comes into lucid fruition. What could be more pornographic than seeing an innocent, holy fool degraded into seeing the world as it really is? The final scene explains it all. A masterpiece.Movie Review: A masterpiece.
Summary: 5 Stars
A profoundly important film, and an inspiration in that a filmmaker in his sixties could still show such anger and rigor in his depiction of human nature. One of the most compassionate, subversive and thrilling films ever made.