Illusion Travels by Streetcar (La Ilusion viaja en tranvia) (1953)
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64% of users liked it
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Seldom has there been a more descriptive and succinct film title than Illusion Travels by Streetcar. Luis Bunuel offers us nothing more or less than a series of hallucinatory images, experienced by two senior citizens while taking their last ride on the Mexico City public transit system. One of the… More Seldom has there been a more descriptive and succinct film title than Illusion Travels by Streetcar. Luis Bunuel offers us nothing more or less than a series of hallucinatory images, experienced by two senior citizens while taking their last ride on the Mexico City public transit system. One of the more startling shots (though not the most) depicts slabs of raw meat dangling from the racks of the streetcar, in the manner of a mobile deep-freeze. Oddly enough, the film observes all commercial considerations; this is surrealism made palatable to even the most conservative of filmgoers. Illusion Travels by Streetcar was originally released as La Ilusion Viaja en Tranvia. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Luis Buñuel
- Written By
- Mauricio de la Serna
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jun 18, 1954 Wide
- Studio
- Bauer International
Critic Reviews
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
Airily shot in various mock-neorealist locales, the movie is more than passingly politicized in its wistful populism
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Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
Illusion Travels by Streetcar is the more aesthetically and politically astringent but less heartfelt cousin to Bunuel's Mexican Bus Ride.
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Cast
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Agustín Isunza
as Papa Pinillos
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Fernando "Mantequilla" Soto
as Tarrajas
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Miguel Manzano
as Don Manuel
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Carlos Navarro
as Juan Caireles
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Lilia Prado
as Lupita
- Domingo Soler