Product Details

• Actors: Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo, Jesús Fernández, Ignacio López Tarso
• Directors: Luis Buñuel
• Format: PAL, Full Screen, Black & White
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: NON-U.S.A. FORMAT: PAL Region 2 U.K. Import
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000LUOVL8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #472,465 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Acclaimed director Luis Buñuel displays several of his trademark interests in this drama about a priest who leaves his order. The director's disdain for organized religion and the establishment, as well as his tendency to shock through visual imagery, are both apparent. Nazarin (Francisco Rabal) is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes. As for the shocking scenes, suffice to say the ravages of a plague are also shown.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Three essential Buñuel movies, February 26, 2011

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This review is from: Nazarin [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] (DVD)

I obtained this DVD (through Amazon.com) from an outfit called Disco Viveros. The DVD is made in Mexico and has the original sound track in Spanish (no subtitles) thus fluency in Spanish is a must. Transfer of the movie to DVD is visually excellent; it does justice to the expressionistic cinematography of Gabriel Figueroa. The sound is fine although there is a little extraneous noise in some scenes. Delivery by Disco Viveros was lightning fast and the pricing very reasonable.

Nazarin is one of the best of Buñuel's Mexican movies. Although maybe not at the level of his later work (El Ángel Exterminador, Viridiana, La Voie Lactée, Tristana...) is a moving piece of work excellently acted by the Spanish actor Francisco Rabal and a good supporting cast.

I obtained in the same way another two of Buñuel's Mexican movies, Los Olvidados and Ensayo de un Crimen. The technical specifications are the same (no subtitles) and the transfer to DVD is of good, if not outstanding quality (a little less so for Los Olvidados). These two movies (as well as Nazarin) are must-watch. Besides their intrinsic quality they are essential pieces in the Buñuel puzzle; it is fascinating to discover themes that reappear in some of his later masterpieces.