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Viridiana dir. Luis Buñuel, 1961
*Invited back to his native, now-Fascist Spain in 1960, Bunuel threw his hosts' (inarguably foolhardy) kindness back in their collective faces with this outrageous satire of the goodly deeds of a naive novitiate (Sylvia Pinal) cast into the secular realm. It threw the Spanish Catholic establishment into uproar, causing Franco to burn all copies.
*blurb from The Guardian.
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