Franco is long gone, but “Viridiana” — which, as the critic Andrew Sarris wrote in 1962, has a plot “almost too lurid to ...

Exclusive: The Spanish surrealist's sacrilegious classic, starring Silvia Pinal as a woman preparing to be a nun, opens ...

After 25 years exile, Luis Buñuel was invited to his native Spain to direct Viridiana — only to have the Spanish government suppress the film on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. Regarded by ...

At the suggestion of her mother superior, innocent novitiate Viridiana pays a visit to her wealthy uncle, Don Jaime, only for him to rape her and commit suicide. Renouncing her vocation, she opens the ...

Silvia Pinal, a glamorous blond-haired actress who worked with acclaimed director Luis Buñuel and endured as one of the last stars of Mexican cinema’s mid-century golden age, died Nov. 28 at a ...