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name = Nazarín | |
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|image = Nazarin poster.jpg |
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|caption = Original poster |
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writer = [[Julio Alejandro]]<BR>[[Luis Buñuel]] | |
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|director = [[Luis Buñuel]] |
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starring = [[Francisco Rabal]]<BR>[[Marga López]]<BR>[[Rita Macedo]]<BR>[[Jesús Fernández]] | |
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|producer = [[Manuel Barbachano Ponce]] |
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|screenplay = {{ubl|[[Julio Alejandro]]|Luis Buñuel}} |
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producer = [[Manuel Barbachano Ponce]] | |
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|based_on = ''Nazarín'' by [[Benito Pérez Galdós]] |
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movie_music = | |
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|starring = {{ubl|[[Francisco Rabal]]|[[Marga López]]|[[Rita Macedo]]|Jesús Fernández}} |
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distributor = [[Producciones Barbáchano Ponce]] | |
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|music = [[Rodolfo Halffter]] |
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|cinematography = [[Gabriel Figueroa]] |
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runtime = 94 min. | |
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|editing = [[Carlos Savage]] |
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|studio = Producciones Barbáchano Ponce |
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|distributor = Películas Nacionales |
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awards = International Prize, Cannes | |
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|released = {{Film date|1959|6|4|df=y}} |
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|runtime = 94 minutes |
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|country = Mexico |
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|language = Spanish |
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'''''Nazarín''''' ({{IPA|es|nasaˈɾin}}, {{IPA|es|naθaˈɾin|}}) is a 1959 Mexican [[satire|satirical]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Luis Buñuel]] and co-written between Buñuel and [[Julio Alejandro]], adapted from the eponymous novel of [[Benito Pérez Galdós]]. |
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The film received the international prize at the [[1959 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/nazarin-2/|title=Festival de Cannes: Nazarín|access-date=19 June 2024|publisher=[[Cannes Film Festival]]}}</ref> and was selected as the Mexican entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[32nd Academy Awards]], but was not selected as a nominee.<ref>Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.</ref> |
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'''''Nazarín''''' is a [[1959]] [[Mexico|Mexican]] film directed by [[Luis Buñuel]] and co-written between Buñuel and [[Julio Alejandro]], adapted from the eponymous novel of [[Benito Pérez Galdós]]. It won the international prize at the [[Cannes Film Festival]]. |
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Although not one of Buñuel's most renowned films, ''Nazarín'' still holds a high reputation. Filmmaker [[Andrei Tarkovsky]] named it one of his ten favorite films.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-films-inspired-andrei-tarkovsky|title=10 great films that inspired Andrei Tarkovsky|last=Lasica|first=Tom|date=22 October 2015|accessdate=11 July 2018}}</ref> In April 2019, a restoration was selected to be shown in the "Cannes Classics" section at the [[2019 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cannes Classics 2019|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2019/nazarin-by-luis-bunuel-the-limits-of-unfailing-belief/|last=Mendes|first=Andréa|publisher=Festival de Cannes|access-date=18 May 2019|date=19 June 2024}}</ref> |
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== Synopsis == |
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Padre Nazario is a priest of Spanish heritage living austerely in the poor side of town. He is of a quiet, template nature and carelessly gives away what little he has, to the point of not caring whenever his house is burgled. One night, a prostitute, Andara, comes running into his home seeking shelter from the authorities; she has murdered a colleague and has been wounded herself in the fight. Padre Nazario decides to aid her and houses her until the authorities find her out hiding there. The prostitute burns the place, so as to not leave a trace of her passing by, and Padre Nazario sets out to peregrinate the country in disguise. |
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==Plot== |
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Along the way, Padre Nazario goes through a series of encounters where he does good through charity, help and comfort, but ends wreaking havoc and chaos. He first tries for a job at a railroad, but is intimidated by his co-workers and after he leaves the site a fight ensues between those defending him and those harassing him; Nazario hears gunfire in the distance. He then comes across a miserable village where he once again meets the prostitutes Andara and Beatriz, who ask for his help in curing a sick child ridden with [[fever]]. He prays amidst their superstitious rites, and leaves the household. |
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Padre Nazario, a priest living in a hostel, is quiet, temperate and distributes his money, even indifferent to being burgled. He shows understanding and compassion to such as Beatriz, who has psychotic episodes and suicidal thoughts after being abandoned by her lover, Pinto. |
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A prostitute, Andara, runs into Nazario's room seeking shelter; she has murdered another prostitute and been wounded. Nazario withholds judgement and helps to conceal her. He tries to make her conscious of her sin. Andara hallucinates that a portrait of Jesus Christ is laughing at her. Beatriz warns them that someone has informed the authorities. Meanwhile, the hostel proprietress finds out and insists Andara must not be discovered with Nazario, ordering her to remove evidence of her stay. After Nazario has left, Andara sets the room ablaze and escapes. |
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By the following day, the child has become healthy, and believing that Padre Nazario performed a miracle, Andara and Beatriz join him in his peregrination, at first rejected, then secretly following him and finally joining him. They come across a tyrant colonel who is on the verge of shooting Nazario for his lack of respect, and a village ridden with the [[Plague (disease)|plague]]. Their services are met with distaste by one dying woman who will rather have her husband next to her than the priest. |
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With Nazario afoul of the law and church, he is warned an investigation could cost him his priesthood. Having no possessions - all stolen or given away - he adopts plain clothes and wanders the country, begging. Meeting a construction crew, Nazario offers to work for food, but other workers resent him undercutting them. They shun him, so Nazario leaves with nothing. also his motives are misunderstood, so a fight between the workers and the foreman ensues. |
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As they camp in the forest, it becomes clear that Andara and Beatriz follow Nazario for hedonistic purposes rather than religious ones - they dispute over Nazario's affection. The party is eventually ambushed traitorously with the aid of the [[midget]] Ujo, Andara's "boyfriend", and Nazario and Andara are taken prisoners on account of their crimes; Beatriz tails along, but is forcefully reunited through her mother with her malicious husband, Pinto, after being told that her devotion for Nazario is nothing but [[lust]]. After a soul-breaking night in jail, where Nazario begins to have trouble with his convictions and finds it hard to forgive his torturing cellmates, he is separated from the procession and is made to march along to his execution point accompanied by one guard. |
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"As if by a miracle," Nazario sees Beatriz again in another town. He reveals his possessions have been stolen. She leads him to Andara, who lives with her, and a sick girl whose mother begs Nazario to cure with a miracle. Nazario suggests a doctor, but offers to pray with them. He is perturbed when the woman performs superstitious rites. The girl's fever subsides. Believing Nazario to be a miracle-worker, Andara and Beatriz follow him despite his protests. |
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In the last scene of the movie, Beatriz and Pinto drive by Nazario without noticing him (or him they) and an old woman by the road gives him a [[pineapple]] as charity. Nazario doubts for a moment whether to accept the useless charity, but takes it in. He then marchs on to drumbeats, having finally receded on his unquestioning faith and the pride with which he used to take in charity. |
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Nazario stops to help a party whose horse has a broken leg. The Colonel yells at a peasant who does not salute them, despite the peasant's protestations that he didn't see them. When Nazario criticises the Colonel's rudeness, the latter tries to pull his gun, but is stopped by the Priest, who excuses Nazario as "a heretic, an erratic preacher" who should be left alone. |
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==Parallelisms with [[Jesus Christ]]== |
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The second half of the movie shares various parallels with the life and work of Jesus Christ: |
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Nazario is followed by Beatriz and Andara, whom he reluctantly tolerates, and sermonizes them. In a [[Plague (disease)|plague]]-ridden village, Nazario's help is rejected by one dying woman, who prefers her husband's ministrations (inspired by the [[Marquis de Sade]]'s ''[[Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man]]''). Nazario is overcome by a feeling of failure. |
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*Nazario peregrinates the land, performing "miracles" and aiding the needed. |
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*He is joined by two women astounded by his miracles and wishing to do good, much like the [[Twelve Apostles|apostle]]s. |
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*Nazario rouses scandal amidst the dogmatic religious because of his teaching and lifestyle. |
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*The character of Beatriz represents [[Mary Magdalene]] since she is a follower and reluctant love interest of Nazario. |
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*One of his "disciples" betrays the party and has them arrested in a garden, an event identical to [[Judas Iscariot]]'s treason at the [[Gethsemane|Garden of Gethsemane]]. Even Andara attempts to fight the soldiers and knocks one down with a branch, but is reprehended by Nazario and asked to follow suit. This closely parallels [[Saint Peter|Peter]]'s maiming of a soldier with his sword and Jesus reprehending him and asking him not to put up a fight. |
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*Both Nazario and Jesus are sent to prison, tortured, offered a chance to escape and forced to wear a mock crown of some sort. |
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*Both Nazario and Jesus are forced to march through torture and humiliation to their deaths. |
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*Also marching to their deaths are two thieves, one of whom is 'bad' and humiliates Nazario, and one of whom is 'good' and who helps him. |
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A midget professes love for Andara despite saying she is ugly. Beatrice's ex Pinto, visiting, sees her, accuses her of being "a priest's lover" and demands that she leave with him. Nazario says she is struggling with Satan but should resist. When she asks how he guessed something was wrong, Nazario responds, "It's not guessing; it's knowing." Andara insists that they flee. Nazario responds only thieves flee and the divine will not forsake them. Beatriz tells Nazario she trusts him, and quotes from the Bible: "''If I can carry your load on my back, I will.''" Andara accuses Nazario of preferring Beatriz, but he asserts a Christian love for both. |
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==External links== |
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*{{imdb title | id=0051983 | title=Nazarín}} |
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Discovered by a search party, Andara and Nazario are arrested: Beatriz begs for his release. Pinto tells Beatriz's mother that Beatriz should go with him. However, Beatriz sings Nazario's praises and speaks of his miracles. Her mother's response that Beatriz loves Nazario "like a man" sends Beatriz into a psychotic episode. |
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Nazario's cellmates insult and assault him. Nazario suffers a crisis of faith, shouting, "''For the first time in my life, I find it hard to forgive. But I forgive you. It is my Christian duty. But I also scorn you! And I feel guilty, not knowing how to separate scorn from forgiveness.''" A cellmate intervenes and Nazario gives him his money. |
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[[Category:1959 films]] |
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[[Category:Mexican films]] |
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[[Category:Palme d'Or winners]] |
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Nazario is accused of insanity and disobedience. As he is led away, Pinto and Beatriz pass by, but without recognition. Nazario passes a fruit seller who offers a pineapple, saying, "Take this charity, and may God be with you." Nazario seems overcome with confusion. He refuses it twice, but then takes it and says, "''May God repay you.''" He is led away, distraught. |
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==Cast== |
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[[bg:Назарин]] |
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*[[Francisco Rabal]] as Father Nazario |
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[[es:Nazarín]] |
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*[[Marga López]] as Beatriz |
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[[fr:Nazarin]] |
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*[[Rita Macedo]] as Andara |
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[[it:Nazarín]] |
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*Jesús Fernández as Hugo |
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[[hu:Nazarín]] |
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*[[Ignacio López Tarso]] as Thief in church |
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*[[Luis Aceves Castañeda]] as Parricide |
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*[[Ofelia Guilmáin]] as Chanfa |
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*[[Noé Murayama]] as Pinto |
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*[[Rosenda Monteros]] as Prieta |
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*[[Victorio Blanco]] as Old prisoner |
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*[[Arturo Castro (Mexican actor)|Arturo Castro]] as Colonel |
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*[[:es:José Chávez Trowe|José Chávez]] as Construction site manager (as José Chávez 'Trowe') |
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*[[Cecilia Leger]] as Woman with pineapple |
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*[[Ignacio Peón]] as Priest |
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==Reception== |
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On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''Nazarín'' has an 86% approval rating based on reviews from 14 critics, and an average rating of 8.3/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nazarin|title=''Nazarín''|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date=19 June 2024}}</ref> |
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The film was included by the Vatican in [[Vatican's list of films|a list of important films]] compiled in 1995, under the category of "Religion".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://old.usccb.org/movies/vaticanfilms.shtml |title=Vatican Best Films List |work=Official website of the [[United States Conference of Catholic Bishops|U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops]] |access-date=2012-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422064928/http://old.usccb.org/movies/vaticanfilms.shtml |archive-date=2012-04-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Catholic deacon and film critic Steven Greydanus has noted some of the film's implicit skepticism of religion, and surmises that it was included in the Vatican's list for its willingness to at least engage with the question of religion.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://decentfilms.com/reviews/nazarin |title=Nazarin (1959) |work=Decent Films |author=Steven Greydanus |access-date=2024-10-12}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
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*[[List of submissions to the 32nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]] |
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*[[List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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*{{IMDb title|0051983}} |
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{{Luis Buñuel}} |
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{{Mexican submission for Academy Awards}} |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nazarín}} |
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[[Category:1959 drama films]] |
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[[Category:Films with atheism-related themes]] |
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[[Category:Mexican drama films]] |
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[[Category:1950s Spanish-language films]] |
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[[Category:Mexican black-and-white films]] |
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[[Category:Films about Catholic priests]] |
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[[Category:Films about Catholicism]] |
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[[Category:Films critical of the Catholic Church]] |
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[[Category:Films based on Spanish novels]] |
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[[Category:Films based on works by Benito Pérez Galdós]] |
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[[Category:Films directed by Luis Buñuel]] |
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Latest revision as of 14:39, 11 November 2024
Nazarín | |
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Directed by | Luis Buñuel |
Screenplay by |
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Based on | Nazarín by Benito Pérez Galdós |
Produced by | Manuel Barbachano Ponce |
Starring |
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Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
Edited by | Carlos Savage |
Music by | Rodolfo Halffter |
Production company | Producciones Barbáchano Ponce |
Distributed by | Películas Nacionales |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | Mexico |
Language | Spanish |
Nazarín (Spanish pronunciation: [nasaˈɾin], [naθaˈɾin]) is a 1959 Mexican satirical drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-written between Buñuel and Julio Alejandro, adapted from the eponymous novel of Benito Pérez Galdós.
The film received the international prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival[1] and was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not selected as a nominee.[2]
Although not one of Buñuel's most renowned films, Nazarín still holds a high reputation. Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky named it one of his ten favorite films.[3] In April 2019, a restoration was selected to be shown in the "Cannes Classics" section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[4]
Plot
[edit]Padre Nazario, a priest living in a hostel, is quiet, temperate and distributes his money, even indifferent to being burgled. He shows understanding and compassion to such as Beatriz, who has psychotic episodes and suicidal thoughts after being abandoned by her lover, Pinto.
A prostitute, Andara, runs into Nazario's room seeking shelter; she has murdered another prostitute and been wounded. Nazario withholds judgement and helps to conceal her. He tries to make her conscious of her sin. Andara hallucinates that a portrait of Jesus Christ is laughing at her. Beatriz warns them that someone has informed the authorities. Meanwhile, the hostel proprietress finds out and insists Andara must not be discovered with Nazario, ordering her to remove evidence of her stay. After Nazario has left, Andara sets the room ablaze and escapes.
With Nazario afoul of the law and church, he is warned an investigation could cost him his priesthood. Having no possessions - all stolen or given away - he adopts plain clothes and wanders the country, begging. Meeting a construction crew, Nazario offers to work for food, but other workers resent him undercutting them. They shun him, so Nazario leaves with nothing. also his motives are misunderstood, so a fight between the workers and the foreman ensues.
"As if by a miracle," Nazario sees Beatriz again in another town. He reveals his possessions have been stolen. She leads him to Andara, who lives with her, and a sick girl whose mother begs Nazario to cure with a miracle. Nazario suggests a doctor, but offers to pray with them. He is perturbed when the woman performs superstitious rites. The girl's fever subsides. Believing Nazario to be a miracle-worker, Andara and Beatriz follow him despite his protests.
Nazario stops to help a party whose horse has a broken leg. The Colonel yells at a peasant who does not salute them, despite the peasant's protestations that he didn't see them. When Nazario criticises the Colonel's rudeness, the latter tries to pull his gun, but is stopped by the Priest, who excuses Nazario as "a heretic, an erratic preacher" who should be left alone.
Nazario is followed by Beatriz and Andara, whom he reluctantly tolerates, and sermonizes them. In a plague-ridden village, Nazario's help is rejected by one dying woman, who prefers her husband's ministrations (inspired by the Marquis de Sade's Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man). Nazario is overcome by a feeling of failure.
A midget professes love for Andara despite saying she is ugly. Beatrice's ex Pinto, visiting, sees her, accuses her of being "a priest's lover" and demands that she leave with him. Nazario says she is struggling with Satan but should resist. When she asks how he guessed something was wrong, Nazario responds, "It's not guessing; it's knowing." Andara insists that they flee. Nazario responds only thieves flee and the divine will not forsake them. Beatriz tells Nazario she trusts him, and quotes from the Bible: "If I can carry your load on my back, I will." Andara accuses Nazario of preferring Beatriz, but he asserts a Christian love for both.
Discovered by a search party, Andara and Nazario are arrested: Beatriz begs for his release. Pinto tells Beatriz's mother that Beatriz should go with him. However, Beatriz sings Nazario's praises and speaks of his miracles. Her mother's response that Beatriz loves Nazario "like a man" sends Beatriz into a psychotic episode.
Nazario's cellmates insult and assault him. Nazario suffers a crisis of faith, shouting, "For the first time in my life, I find it hard to forgive. But I forgive you. It is my Christian duty. But I also scorn you! And I feel guilty, not knowing how to separate scorn from forgiveness." A cellmate intervenes and Nazario gives him his money.
Nazario is accused of insanity and disobedience. As he is led away, Pinto and Beatriz pass by, but without recognition. Nazario passes a fruit seller who offers a pineapple, saying, "Take this charity, and may God be with you." Nazario seems overcome with confusion. He refuses it twice, but then takes it and says, "May God repay you." He is led away, distraught.
Cast
[edit]- Francisco Rabal as Father Nazario
- Marga López as Beatriz
- Rita Macedo as Andara
- Jesús Fernández as Hugo
- Ignacio López Tarso as Thief in church
- Luis Aceves Castañeda as Parricide
- Ofelia Guilmáin as Chanfa
- Noé Murayama as Pinto
- Rosenda Monteros as Prieta
- Victorio Blanco as Old prisoner
- Arturo Castro as Colonel
- José Chávez as Construction site manager (as José Chávez 'Trowe')
- Cecilia Leger as Woman with pineapple
- Ignacio Peón as Priest
Reception
[edit]On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Nazarín has an 86% approval rating based on reviews from 14 critics, and an average rating of 8.3/10.[5]
The film was included by the Vatican in a list of important films compiled in 1995, under the category of "Religion".[6] Catholic deacon and film critic Steven Greydanus has noted some of the film's implicit skepticism of religion, and surmises that it was included in the Vatican's list for its willingness to at least engage with the question of religion.[7]
See also
[edit]- List of submissions to the 32nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
[edit]- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Nazarín". Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- ^ Lasica, Tom (22 October 2015). "10 great films that inspired Andrei Tarkovsky". Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- ^ Mendes, Andréa (19 June 2024). "Cannes Classics 2019". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "Nazarín". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ "Vatican Best Films List". Official website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ Steven Greydanus. "Nazarin (1959)". Decent Films. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
External links
[edit]- 1959 films
- 1959 drama films
- Films with atheism-related themes
- Mexican drama films
- 1950s Spanish-language films
- Mexican black-and-white films
- Films about Catholic priests
- Films about Catholicism
- Films critical of the Catholic Church
- Films based on Spanish novels
- Films based on works by Benito Pérez Galdós
- Films directed by Luis Buñuel
- 1950s Mexican films