Viridiana (1961) by Luis Buñuel.

“It was the time when we were starting the Cineastes de notre temps series, and we started with Bunuel, just after Viridiana. We went to see him at his home, in Madrid and in Toledo. It has to do with personal things but not only. The film is filled with more and more surprising metaphors and it was Bunuel’s come back to Spain. I can’t think about any other film which it could be compared to about its blasphemous violence, and it was done with such subtelty that the film received a price in Cannes from the Catholic Office !”

Paris, March 14 2008