Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Spain, Mexico
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Spanish — subtitles on.
The story
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
- based on novel or book
- nun
- faith
- lie
- uncle
- wine
- devoutness
- rural area
- black and white
- orphan
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Margarita Lozano — Ramona
- Victoria Zinny — Lucía
- Teresa Rabal — Rita
- Luis Heredia — El Poca
- Joaquín Roa — Don Zequiel
- José Manuel Martín — El Cojo
- Lola Gaos — Enedina
- Juan García Tiendra — José 'El Leproso' (uncredited)
- Sergio Mendizábal — El Pelón
- María Isbert — Beggar
- Claudio Brook — (uncredited)
- Directed
- Luis Buñuel
- Written
- Luis Buñuel, Julio Alejandro
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 556 ratings
- Studio
- Unión Industrial Cinematográfica, Films 59, Producciones Gustavo Alatriste
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
