Friday 12 August 2005, 19.00

Luis Buñuel, Mexico 1959, 94’, subs, cert PG

The political and the sexual are not so far apart for Buñuel, as arenas for power and repression.  – Dominique Russell

Luis Buñuel’s film is a study of religious idealism and harsh social realities at the end of the nineteenth century. Father Nazarín is a priest who lives in a slum area of Mexico City. His neighbours steal from him and take advantage of his literal reading of Jesus’s teachings. After he takes in a prostitute injured in a fight, Nazarín is disavowed by the Catholic hierarchy and driven from his home, accompanied two prostitutes who believe he is the new Christ.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Frida Kahlo exhibition