She has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his niece.

Buñuel was undoubtedly a genius who had the invaluable capacity to offend and delight at the same time. He returned to his native Spain (from exile in Mexico) to create this film, a scorching anti-clerical masterpiece which won the 1961 Palme D’Or at Cannes, and marked his rebirth as a filmmaker of international repute.