Mexican bus ride (Subida al cielo)

Duration: 73

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Prod. Cine. Isla, S.A. ; producer, Manuel Altolaguirre ; screenplay and direction, Luis Buñuel.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983.; Altolaguirre, Manuel, 1904-1959.; Phillips, Alex.; Pittaluga, Gustavo, 1906-1975.; Prado, Lilia.; Márquez, Esteban.; González, Carmelita, 1928-; Aceves Castañeda, Luis.; Gómez, Leonor.; Dondé, Manuel.

Description: Original release title in Mexico: Subida al cielo.; From a story by Manuel Altolaguirre and Manuel Reachi.; Copyright notice: c1953 by Clasa Mohme, Inc.; Credits and running time taken from print.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CUY.; Music, Gustavo Pittaluga ; photography, Alex Phillips.; Lilia Prado, Esteban Márquez, Carmen Gonzalez, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Leonor Gómez, Manuel Dondé.; "Oliviero, a young peasant, is forced to leave his bride on their wedding night in order to get his dying mother to regularize her will. Of course the village is very far away-and then the bus driver insists on taking a detour by way of his own mother's home-so there is plenty of time for Oliviero's life to be transformed. By what? By "nothing...nothing happens, nothing at all" (Buñuel). But it is his very delight in mundane absurdity that makes Mexican Bus Ride vintage Buñuel, and for our purposes, vintage Mexican Buñuel. Ado Kyrou writes, '[This is] a relaxed comedy with a hint of something more meaningful just beneath the surface....The trip begins...with an absurd birth and ends with a ridiculous death. Meanwhile, the young man has learned what love is, has flirted with politics, has deflated a few balloons: business, the family, folklore, and so on'"--Pacific Film Archive program note.; PFA 1616-01-9649. D0325; In Spanish with English subtitles.; PFA 1616-01-9649. CONDITION NOTE: Last checked: Poor to fair cond.; splices; scratches; slight vinegar odor; AD level 1.0 CONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2007/07/05 Same.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE