Banned in Spain and denounced by the Vatican, Luis Bunuel"s hilarious vision of life as a beggar"s banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece. In it, the young novice Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. Winner of the Palme d"Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, this anticlerical free-for-all is as shocking today as ever.