Luis Buñuel returned to Spain after twenty-three years of exile to make Viridiana, the film that won him the Vatican’s condemnation, the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, and widespread box-office success—except in Spain, where it was banned by Francisco Franco. Viridiana longs to become a nun, but on the eve of taking her vows, she makes a final visit to the home of her lecherous uncle, who sees in her the reincarnation of his dead wife. With Viridiana, Buñuel inserts some of his most outrageous erotic and religious imagery.