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Nazarín (Spanish with French subtitles)
Location
Main screening room
Date
September 1st, 2024
Duration
95 min
Cycle
The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema

In collaboration with Quebecine and the Cineteca Nacional de México, we present this selection of ten films, including social melodramas, film noirs, and comedies, which are representative titles from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Rare gems with finely crafted direction, showcased in beautifully restored versions.

Restored version
Winner of the International Prize, 1959 Cannes Film Festival

Nazarín
Directed by
Luis Buñuel
Language
Spanish with French subtitles
Actors
Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo
Origins
Mexico
Year
1958
Duration
95 min
Genre
Drama
Format
Digital
Synopsis

A priest in a poor community leads a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many people do not reciprocate.

Nazarín
Awards
Parmi les films que j'ai réalisés au Mexique, Nazarin est certainement un des deux que je préfère. Il fut d'ailleurs bien reçu, non sans quelques malentendus qui concernaient le contenu véritable du film. Ainsi au Festival de Cannes, où il reçut un Grand Prix International créé spécialement à cette occasion, il faillit également se voir décerner le Prix de l'Office catholique...
Luis Buñuel, 1982

Luis Buñuel

Born in 1900 in Aragon, Spain, Luis Buñuel studied with the Jesuits before moving to Madrid to attend university. There he met Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, and became close to the Dadaist movement. In 1925 he moved to Paris and became the assistant of Jean Epstein. Influenced by surrealism, he directed, with the collaboration of Dalí on the screenplay, Un chien andalou and then The Golden Age. The latter was more widely distributed, but caused a scandal and inaugurated the long list of censorship acts that would be directed at Buñuel's works, regardless of the period, for their sense of provocation, their political scope and their independence of spirit. The filmmaker worked for a time in Spain, but the civil war broke out and he left for the United States, before finally going into exile in Mexico, where he shot most of his work for almost twenty years. From the 1960s onwards, he returned to France to film, beginning a fruitful collaboration with the screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who co-wrote all of his last films. Since his death, Buñuel's work has continued to be one of the most influential of the 20th century.

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