Weekend Movie Forecast: The Soloist Vs. Tyson

Luis Bunuel's award-winning 1961 film Viridiana is screening at Film Forum for one week only. Keith Uhlich at Time Out writes, "It’s as scabrous a film as they come, following virginal postulant Viridiana (Pinal) on a mother-superior-mandated visit to her reclusive uncle (Rey) at his country estate. An incestuous attraction is semi-acted on, a suicide by jump rope follows, and Viridiana quashes her guilt by ministering to a gaggle of rowdy, discontented vagrants. That might be enough incident and implication for a whole film, but Buñuel knows no restraint. In the infamous dinner-scene centerpiece, he profanes both the Last Supper and the 'Hallelujah Chorus,' then goes on to detail Viridiana’s absolute loss of faith."