Before taking her final vows as a nun, a young woman (Silvia Pinal) visits her estranged Uncle (Fernando Rey). Her Uncle is attracted to her because she resembles his dead wife but she spurns his advances. In a strange turn of events, it doesn't end there and she'll never return to the convent. Loosely based on the novel HALMA by Benito Perez Galdos and directed by Luis Bunuel (EXTERMINATING ANGEL). This black comedy finds Bunuel at his most irreverent and cynical. The winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes film festival, the Catholic church found it blasphemous and it wasn't shown in Spain until 1977! Bunuel satirizes piety and good deeds and the beggar's banquet sequence is both hilarious and repulsive. Some of it is too obvious to be amusing like Bunuel's use of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus and I suppose the same could be said of his satirizing The Last Supper but I found that wickedly amusing. With Francisco Rabal, Margarita Lozano and Lola Gaos.
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