Luis Buñuel's picaresque tale about the impossibility in this miserable world of following the path to Christian perfection, told with an unrelenting De Sade-ian nastiness but with a much nicer sense of irony. A movie that gives sustenance to long-suffering believers and merciless scoffers alike. With Francisco Rabal; based on a novel by Benito Perez Galdos. (1958) — Duncan Shepherd
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