Luis Buñuel-Nazarin (1959) (Reupload)

Nazarin is a priest, attempting to living a pure and honest life strictly according to Christian principles - but others only show him distrust and hatred, apart from the local prostitute... (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051983/plotsummary)


In the masterful 1958 film Nazarin, Father Nazario (Francisco Rabal), a Catholic Priest, tries to imitate Christ by living a life of self-denial. He surrounds himself with prostitutes, beggars, thieves, and dwarfs and freely shares his meager resources with others but finds that his actions only produce distressing results. Based on the novel by Benito Perez Galdos, the film is about a gentle but sanctimonious priest in rural Mexico in 1900. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051983/usercomments)


Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, said about "Nazarin": "Nazarin follows the great tradition of mad Spaniards originated by Cervantes. His madness consists in taking seriously great ideas and trying to live accordingly". A humble and spiritual priest (Francisco Rabal in a wonderful performance) attempts to live by the principles of Christianity but is cast out of his church for helping a local prostitute by giving her a shelter after she had committed a murder. Nazarin wanders the country roads of the turn of the 20th-century Mexico, offering help to poor and begging for food. His two followers, a murderous prostitute Andara and her sister Beatriz who is a failed suicide desperately searching for love, consider him saint but it does not prevent him from hatred and humiliation from both the church and the people he meets on the road. He ends up beaten in prison and begins to question his faith for not be able to forgive his attacker. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051983/usercomments)


Bunuel tells the story in a manner of a Christian parable masterfully and uniquely combining admiration and irony for the main character and strong criticism of formal religion and hypocrisy. The film is simple and profound as well as beautiful, ironic, and heartbreaking. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051983/usercomments)


On Nazarin's way,only brambles and couch grass grow.His attempt to help working man on the road is a failure,he's chased out as a strike-breaker.All his words amount to nothing.At the end of the journey,he's arrested and offered a pineapple by a woman(Bunuelian sexual symbol). Thanks to "Nazarin" ,Bunuel was allowed to return to Spain (where the censors had not got a clue ) and to direct "Viridiana". (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051983/usercomments)


As Nazario and his two followers beg their way through the countryside, Father Nazario leaves nothing except disaster in his wake. This is not deliberate--but the consequence of his natural goodness. He would rather go hunger than contribute to any social injustice, and while his self-sacrifice should bear good results, his actions only bring chaos and social disorder. Ironically, while Nazario is the living embodiment of Christian precepts, he's ultimately viewed as a danger to society. (www.amazon.com)





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