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Religion is Guilt With Different Holidays: Luis Bunuel’s Viridiana (1961) | Page 3 of 4

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Luis Bunuel‘s Viridiana is a challenging and provocative examination of religion and guilt at the turn of the 1960s.

Luis Bunuel is now one of my all-time favorite directors, but it was a long time before I’d seen one of his films. I’d first heard of him in a book or online somewhere, being lumped into the category of “surrealist filmmakers” alongside David Lynch and Frederico Fellini. Then my favorite band, of Montreal, referenced one of his movies in a lyric from their 2004 song “Lysergic Bliss” (“If we were a pair of jigsaw-puzzle pieces, we would connect so perfectly/ Creating a still photo of a scene from The Phantom of Liberty “). I soon became obsessed with tracking

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