luis bunuel have always be a filmmaker whose work be obscure to me . my first experience with him be the discreet charm of the bourgeosie and often consider his great work and with which i become so frustrated and bore that i eventually shut the tape off . likewise belle de jour and which be almost certainly his best know film and also generally consider one of his many masterpiece and do not interest me very much at all . i do not hate it like i do discreet and but i do not like it . third and i saw lage dor . finally and i have get somewhere . fourth and los olvidados and also good . still and neither lage dor nor los olvidados blow me away . great film and but not masterpiece . nazarin be my fifth bunuel and and i like it just a tad more than those other two . it be about a priest from spain now in mexico who refuse to live in the kind of luxury most priest live in . he want to be more like jesus and lead the meek life possible . he also willing to forgive everyone for anything and and to suffer without protest . i be pretty sure bunuel do not sympathize with the character and and see him a rather self righteous . however and i only assume that because of my knowledge of the director and whose most famous quotation be thank god and i be still an atheist and which he apparently say in an interview over this very film ( i get this information from john baxter book about bunuel and if youre interested ) . the interviewer who drag those word from bunuel mouth must have be himself confuse about nazarin . one who be more predisposed to believe in religious conviction and who also know nothing about bunuel and might see the priest a a heroic figure . this be especially true if that viewer have his or her own criticism of organize religion . the priest may be somewhat self righteous and but he seem to be basically a good man . when he harbor a violent prostitute in his room in order to protect her ( and and presumably and to save her soul ) and people begin to find out and assume that their relationship be sexual . his superior assume the same and punish him for it . later on and he suffer even bad punishment from cleric .