Viridiana (pronounced [biɾiˈðjana]) is a 1961 Spanish-Mexican surrealist[1] comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and produced by Gustavo Alatriste.

Before taking her final vows as a nun, Viridiana is instructed to visit her only living relative, an uncle named Don Jaime who financed her education.

Initially, they pilfer items, but then decide to stage a banquet, complete with a group photograph parodying Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.

A few nights later, Ramona and Jorge are playing cards in his bedroom to lively music[a] when they invite Viridiana in to create a threesome.

The Spanish board of censors rejected the original ending of the film, which depicted Viridiana entering Jorge's room and slowly closing the door behind her.

However, L'Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Holy See, described Viridiana as "blasphemous", and the government of Francisco Franco banned it in Spain.

According to executive producer Pere Portabella, Spanish authorities tried to have the original negative burned, and it only survived because it was with a foreign company who had done some post-production work.

His format is strangely literary; his symbols are obvious and blunt, such as the revulsion of the girl toward milking or the display of a penknife built into a crucifix.

[9] The film was released by The Criterion Collection in the United States and by Madman Entertainment in Australia (on the "Directors Suite" label) and New Zealand.