Tag Archives: Luis Buñuel

Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Read More »

Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister Read More »

An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Read More »

In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open–juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction Read More »

The ascetic Simón believes he is a sinner and decides to self-inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal Read More »

Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. Read More »

When the young woman Tristana’s mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Read More »

Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Read More »

Celestine, the chambermaid, has new occupation around the nation. The Monteils, that works for are a bunch of odd men and women. Read More »

This surrealist film is made up of series of only vaguely connected episodes, most beautifully the dinner party scene where individuals sit lavatories around a dinner table Read More »