Certainly one of the most beautifully photographed of all the Buñuel films, Nazarín captures the harsh Mexican landscape for a tale of a turn-of-the-century wandering cleric who has shed his priest's garments in hopes of comforting the poor, free from the Church's chastising shadow. He is accompanied by two desperate women and an assortment of life's outcasts. His is a Christlike effort, to wring charity out of a peasantry locked into the absurd cruelty of their environment, but also into the very material reality of being human. Like Sullivan in his Travels, Nazarín's experience among the wretched teaches him the nature of escape. Ado Kyrou: "He becomes a man when he discovers that to practice religion entails only misfortune, that it aggravates suffering-when, in a word, he discovers that one can and should substitute solidarity for charity..."