Viridiana

We’ve just met Jorge (Francisco Rabal), illegitimate son of the late Don Jaime, who’s inherited half his estate, and girlfriend Lucia (Victoria Zinny), when they meet Silvia Pinal (title character), the niece and would-be nun who inherited the other half, with a group of vagrants she plans to support, in Luis Bunuel’s Viridiana, 1962.

Director Luis Bunuel’s opening, from the picture which the fascist government of his native Spain invited him home to make, introducing Silvia Pinal as the title character, a novitiate being instructed by her superior (Rosita Yarza), then meeting her uncle (Fernando Rey), in Viridiana, 1962.

Though not clear at the time, we’ll learn that Silvia Pinal (title character), visiting the uncle whom she barely knows, before she enters a convent, is sleepwalking, as he fiddles with the personal belongings of his late wife, whom she closely resembles, in Luis Bunuel’s Viridiana, 1962.