What kind of story is Bunuel telling here? What visual means does he use to tell it? The style of direction is mostly a quite classical continuity style, but odd elements always seem to be intruding: such as the repeated closeups on certain fetish objects (feet, the crown of thorns, the wedding veil, the jump rope), the visual replication of Leonardo's Last Supper during the beggars' banquet, the use of incongruous diegetic music (Handel's Messiah, the pop song at the end, etc), cutaways like the shot of the cat pouncing on the mouse.
Consider the stylization of acting in this film. To what extent is the film played naturalistically, and to what extent is artifice being emphasized?
What attitudes is Bunuel expressing towards Christianity (as seen in Viridiana's plight)? towards traditional aristocratic values (embodied by Don Jaime)? towards modernization (as seen in Jorge)? How objective, versus how engaged, is the camera's point of view?