Mexican Bus Ride (1951)
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Genres - Comedy, Drama |
Sub-Genres - Road Movie, Satire |
Run Time - 85 min. |
Countries - Mexico |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Better known as Ascent to Heaven, Luis Bunuel's Mexican Bus Ride is a genial surrealistic comedy with many of the earmarks but little of the elegant cruelty of Bunuel's later works. Esteban Marquez plays a young bridegroom who is called away from the altar. Marquez's mother is dying, necessitating a bumpy two-day ride in a rickety bus to the little village where mama resides. En route, Marquez meets many eccentric characters, and is detained in a variety of mirth-provoking ways. Once he's arrived, Marquez is prevented from returning to his wedding by legal squabble's over mama's will.
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inheritance, big-city, brother, bus, ceremony, death, family, honeymoon, journey, lawyer, mother, on-the-road, passenger, peasant, race-against-time, seduction, sibling, slice-of-life, temptation, traveling, wedding, will [document], busing [school integration], Mexico, youth
