Nuestro Cine Clasico: Flor Silvestre/Subida al Cielo
by Emilio Fernndez, Luis Buuel
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Actor: Dolores del Rio, Emilio Fernndez, Esteban Mrquez, Lilia Prado, Pedro ArmendrizDirector: Emilio Fernndez, Luis Buuel
Brand: Lions Gate
Writer: Emilio Fernndez
Writer: Luis Buuel
Writer: Fernando Robles
Writer: Juan de la Cabada
Writer: Lilia Solano Galeana
Writer: Manuel Altolaguirre
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 179 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
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DVD Review: A Mexican Bus Ride thru Life & Death!
Summary: 4 Stars
This review is intended only for "Subida al Cielo".
Director Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) was the epitome of Surrealism in movies. All his pictures, even those underrated from his Mexican period, as the present one, are provoking.
In "Subida al Cielo" (1952) ("Ascent to Heaven" aka "Mexican Bus Ride") as in most of his films, characters are ambiguous. They shed light and cast shadows to each other. There are no "absolutes"; even the more despicable have some traits of "virtue" and vice versa.
The storyline is as follows: Oliverio and his bride Elisa are rowing to their honeymoon island, when they are intercepted by Oliverio's elder brother telling them his mother is in agony and they should immediately return.
Back at the village Oliverio talks to her dying mother and she charges him to fetch a Notary from a quite distant town and bring him back, so she is able to legate some valuable proprieties to her orphaned grandson. She fears her other two sons will fake her last will in their own profit.
Oliverio starts then an adventurous bus ride to his mother's hometown in search of the Attorney. Over this background, Buñuel constructs a "road movie", depicting archetypical charters with his critical and almost impious cynical regard.
This characters' gallery contains a politician, the bus driver, a decadent high-bourgeois, a spirited young girl, a hen breeder, a rural family including their goats amongst others, giving way to comical and tragic exchanges.
In the middle of the trip, Buñuel interpolates an oneiric sequence that is paradigmatically of his filmography. This sequence is more than enough reason to watch the film.
Even if it's not a great film is more than watchable and a "must see" for any Buñuel films fan!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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