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Esteban Márquez, Lilia Prado, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Roberto Cobo, Manuel Donde ... see more see more... , Carmelita González , Beatriz Ramos , Roberto Meyer , Silvia Castro , Pedro Elviro

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 pl... read more read more...ays 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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 25 min.

Directed by: Luis Buñuel

Release Date: July 20, 1954

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  • rubystevens
    May 8, 2012
    rubystevens
    it's a perfectly lovely film and who knew the great cynic had such sweetness in him. a young man postpones his wedding to take a rickety bus to a distant city to make provisions for his mother's will, beset by a stream of oddball characters and frustrating circumstances along the... read more way. a surreal dream sequence and some pointed satire serve to remind us who we're dealing with
  • fb1142797643
    February 21, 2012
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    This early Luis Bunuel film is not really worth seeing, sorry to say. If it has any selling point, it's not Bunuel but the outrageous sexiness of Lilia Prado. The filmmaking is quite conventional, and initially recalls one of those old Disney travelogue documentaries.

    The title ... read more"Mexican Bus Ride" essentially captures the plot -- a bus full of villagers tags along with a young man journeying to another town to work out the will details for his (allegedly) dying mother. His greedy brothers pursue an alternate scheme at home.

    Life on the bus meets a slew of complications: rain, traction, a flat tire, sleeplessness, childbirth, farm animals, bickering, sexual temptation and visiting Americans.

    The fascination of the more obscure Bunuel films is hunting for signs of his usual perverse quirks...here, we get glimpses including a beautiful woman who is mostly dismissed as an annoyance, a one-legged man, a skeptical depiction of politicians and a fantasy sequence with some visual symbolism. These mild virtues aren't enough.

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