Mexican Bus Ride

(1952)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 36 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 1952

Runtime: 80 мин

Country: Mexico

Director: Luis Buñuel

Cast: Esteban Márquez, Lilia Prado, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Manuel Dondé, Roberto Cobo, Beatriz Ramos, Manuel Noriega, Roberto Meyer, Pedro Elviro, Leonor Gómez

Plot

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.