…essential Luis Bunuel, stark, antagonistic, unforgiving…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2024

The overall beauty of Buñuel’s work always lies in his malleability...

| Jun 6, 2024

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana, he scorching anti-clerical masterpiece that won the Golden Palm at Cannes last year, must be one of the most impudent gestures in the whole history of the cinema.

| Jan 22, 2024

The un-PC gender politics might seem dated, its irreverent view of religion trite, and some will rankle at its depiction of the poor and destitute. But even though Viridiana is a product of its time, it’s a great film that sill has much to offer.

| Jul 22, 2023

Cruel, grotesque, blasphemous, and bemused, Viridiana is still rather shocking.

| Jul 6, 2023

In a context where opposite poles are moved by the same interests, being in the middle seems surreal, as it happens to Viridiana. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2021

Made in Franco's Spain, Luis Buñuel's blasphemous comedy Viridiana (1961) poked a finger in the dictator's eye...

| Aug 14, 2020

One of the cinema's inalienable masterpieces.

| May 14, 2020

Bitterly humourous.

| May 14, 2020

Viridiana's unblinking vision of a world without true innocence isn't misanthropic, but powerfully, unapologetically humane-a black comedy without pity or judgment.

| Apr 6, 2020

An uncompromising film, as brutal in its message as it is baroque in its cinematography... It is much to have anything at all to say in the movies; it is more to say it as powerfully as Bunuel does.

| Jul 30, 2019

Viridiana is one of the best films -- if not the best -- to have been made in Spain. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 23, 2019

What limits [Buñuel's] morality play and blunts its force is the fact that he has so little to set against it.

| Jun 18, 2018

[A]s scabrous a film as they come.

| Original Score: 5/6 | Nov 17, 2011

An extraordinary cinematic treasure.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Mar 23, 2008

Essential and unforgettable.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 1, 2007

'Viridiana' probes deep into psychological earth; at the core, it's a despairing picture of the dark cavern of the human heart.

| Mar 6, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 18, 2007

See Viridiana, and all other movies will seem to be missing something from then on.

| Jul 28, 2006

One of Bunuel's most scathing attacks on Spanish society and religion.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 12, 2006