The Young One
Luis Buñuel
After having been wrongly accused of rape, Travers, a black man, takes refuge on an island to escape reprisals. Miller, who lives with an orphaned teenage girl, captures Travers. This triangle of individuals that age and ethnic origins oppose, will nevertheless have to live together...
With : Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Kay Meersman, Grahan Denton, Claudio Brook
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Hugo Butler, d'après un conte de Peter Mathiesen, Travelling Man
Image : Gabriel Figueroa
Sound : José B. Carles, Gadino Samperio
Music : Jesús Zarzosa
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Carlos Savage
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Hugo Butler, d'après un conte de Peter Mathiesen, Travelling Man
Image : Gabriel Figueroa
Sound : José B. Carles, Gadino Samperio
Music : Jesús Zarzosa
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Carlos Savage
Production : Producciones Olmeca, Columbia, George P. Werker
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
"Without claiming to present a thesis, I have tried to understand – not justify – racist characters". (Luis Buñuel) Buñuel works on the opposition between morals and feelings, purely physical sensibility. For the first time he called on his son, Juan Luis Buñuel, as first assistant. Buñuel always considered this film as one of his most personal ones, and in effect the recurrent motifs of his work are numerous: feet, animals and impartiality. "The film is neither pro-black nor pro-white. I even allow the white racist to justify himself when he is talking with the black man", said Buñuel. The characters are very complex and ambiguous, never totally good or bad: "There is no reason why the black man should be perfect. He can have as many human defects as anyone else. What I lament in some films with a message is that, in the case of racism, for instance, they present black people as being good souls. I think that is cheating". (Luis Buñuel)