Archived: Nazarin

Nazarin

fiction, drama, Mexico, 1959

DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel

ROLE:

Marga López (Beatriz) Francisco Rabal (father Nazario) Rita Macedo (Andara) Ofelia Guilmáin (Chanfa) Ignacio López Tarso

SCRIPT: Julio Alejandro, Luis Buñuel (based on a novel by Benito Pérez Galdós)

PHOTOGRAPHY: Gabriel Figueroa

MUSIC: Rodolfo Halffter

EDITING: Carlos Savage

CONTENT:

In early 20th century Mexico, the priest Nazario lived among the poor and cared for them. Church authorities punish him for protecting the prostitute Andar accused of murdering another prostitute, so he sets off to wander Mexico. Along with Andara, he is followed by Beatriz, who has responded to suicide after being rejected by her lover Pinto, and the dwarf Ujo. Nazario wants to consistently live the teachings of Christ and fully imitates him, but the environment mocks him for that…

Along with The Forgotten, Nazarín is the most artistically prominent achievement of the Mexican period of Luis Buñuel's career and a film which, after almost a full decade dedicated mainly to commercial productions, once again drew attention to itself as a creatively relevant author of international achievements. The former blasphemous creator of the avant-garde Golden Age, whose producers were threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, met with church approval with this film, and the Vatican included it in its list of 45 major religious films. The apparent drawing of a parallel between the title film's protagonist and Christ, with no visible subversive intentions, impressed official church doctrines, although Nazarín problematizes the same thing Buñuel will do in some later Church-targeted films, such as Viridiana – a complete schism between Christian ideals. the love and reality of a world that most rudely rejects them, even though that world is ruled by formal Christians. The reason for this lies in the deep nature of man, which prevents him from reaching saintly role models, especially the highest, Christ, that is, this nature with its persistent inviolability, especially the unbreakability of its erotic aspect, testifies to the unnaturalness of Christian ideals and those originally inspired by them. The Holy See recognized in Buñuel as the author of Nazarín, although he was a declared atheist, anarchist and former member of the Communist Party, a righteous man who asked the right questions, but did not understand the film's profound message of the necessary defeat of the idealistic Christian conception in the material world. , that is, about the futility of his mission if it has anything to do with the original Christ and the early apostles. In addition to referring directly to Christ, Nazarín also refers to Cervantes' Don Quixote, that is, he implicitly suggests a connection between the mentally shifted ecstasy of the latter and the devotion of the founders of Christianity. The film is an adaptation of a novel by Benito Pérez Galdós and Buñuel’s only collaboration with prominent Mexican independent producer Manuel Barbachan Ponte. It was screened in the main program of the Cannes Film Festival where it received the International Award.

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Portraits: Surrealist film by Luis Buñuel

As part of a major retrospective of Spanish director Luis Buñuel, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, by September 30, we will show 20 titles made in the period 1929-1977. Buñuel is an author of superb, original and recognizable opus and style, a director who perfectly surrealist symbolism fits into the overall structure of the work and permeates it with a plot, and a strong critic of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy, especially the meaninglessness and futility of religious dogmas and human constraints.

The program was realized in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain in Zagreb and Cineteca Nacional México.

All films have Croatian subtitles.

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