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Mexican Bus Ride

Mexican Bus Ride

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 25, 1952

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

64%

Original Title

Subida al cielo

Production Companies

Producciones Isla S.A.

Director

Luis Buñuel

Description

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.