La Ilusión Viaja en Tranvía
Luis Buñuel
The streetcar in old Mexico is to be decommissioned. But not without difficulty for two of its drivers. They get drunk to forget and decide to steal the streetcar to take it on a final journey. All sorts of mishaps and adventures follow. But this curious booty soon becomes a liability for the two companions...
With : Lilia Prado, Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto, Augustin Isunza, Miguel Manzano, Guillermo Bravo Sosa
Screenplay : Mauricio de la Serna, José Revueltas, Luis Alcoriza, Juan de la Cabada, d'après un conte de Mauricio de la Serna
Image : Raúl Martínez Solares
Sound : José de Pérez, Rafael Ruis Esparza
Music : Luis Hernández Bretón
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Jorge Bustos
Decors : José G. Jara
Screenplay : Mauricio de la Serna, José Revueltas, Luis Alcoriza, Juan de la Cabada, d'après un conte de Mauricio de la Serna
Image : Raúl Martínez Solares
Sound : José de Pérez, Rafael Ruis Esparza
Music : Luis Hernández Bretón
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Jorge Bustos
Decors : José G. Jara
Production : Clasa Films Mundiales, Armando Orive Alba
Distribution: Colifilms
Distribution: Colifilms
Although Buñuel always kept his distances from Italian neo-realism, La Ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar) is the first film that he consents to link, in certain aspects, to the post-war movement. In this "road movie" the streetcar goes through picturesque landscapes which show part of Mexican social reality. For José de La Colina, Buñuel works by "collage", like Max Ernst's old images. "This could be like the images in La Femme 100 têtes: taking images from the Rastro, or from a church, images of quarters of meat or bigots carrying an image of the virgin, and sticking them on the image of the inside of the streetcar" (Luis Buñuel).