Warming film about an adventurous tram-ride , being competently directed by the Spanish Luis Buñuel . Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar , no. 133 , is going to be decommissioned, two municipal workers , mechanic Godinez : Carlos Navarro and pilot Tarrajas : Fernando Soto. They're really get drunk and decide to take a trip for one last spin and to have fun . They take a journey tram and eventually causing distresses and discussion . Step by step several passengers hop off , resulting in mayhem and discord among the crowd of the noisy bus . As the tram passengers become into a frenzied chaos and unrest . And to further complicate things , they drive it to an uncertain destination and undertaking a race against time due to a meddling retired ex-driver by taking the bus .
La Ilusión también viaja en Tranvia 1954 is a nice picture by the great Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel about a thunderous streetcar-ride driven by two workers who get drunk throughout Mexico City . The movie is well worthy thanks to amusing and sympathetic performances, dealing with two good-natured but drunk Municipal Transit workers , -well-played by Carlos Navarro and Fernando Tojo- , who make up their mind to borrow the streetcar for one night , but then thing go wrong when the short-time trip ends up being an all-night . The picture features exceptional work by Lilia Prado , a similar interpretation to starred by Rosita Quintana in ¨Susana¨ (1951) , and ¨Mexican Bus Ride¨(1953) , she's magnificently charming playing the attractive girl . It bears remarkable resemblance to ¨Mexican Bus Ride¨ (1953) concerning a long journey carried out by a beautiful girl to a distant city to get his mom's will notarize , that's why the ill mummy wishes her little child inherits solace at a wealthy home, and regarding what really happened to Buñuel's friend , Spanish poet Manuel Altolaguirre , while on a bus trip . Based on a story and adaptation by Mauricio de la Serna , producer as well , and supervised by Buñuel's regular : Luis Alcoriza and Luis Buñuel himself . Furthermore, a beautifully cinematography in subdued black and white by cameraman Raúl Martínez Solares . Being shot on various locations in Mexico City, Distrito Federal . And atmospheric and appropriate musical score by Luis Bretón.
The motion picture was competently directed by Luis Buñuel , belonging to his Mexican period . Buñuel wrote his autobiography, "My Last Sigh" in which detailed his exiled trajectory in Mexico and the troublesome shootings . After filming Spanish and French films as "Un Chien Andalou" (1929) , and ¨Age of Gold¨(1930) , ¨Hurdes tierra sin pan¨ (1936) , Buñuel went on his Mexican period in which he teamed up with producer Óscar Dancigers and after a couple of unmemorable efforts shot back to international attention with the lacerating study of Mexican street urchins in ¨Los Olvidados¨ (1950) , revealing a certain critical to the hypocrisies of modern society , winning him the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival . But despite this new-found acclaim, Buñuel spent much of the next decade working on a variety of ultra-low-budget films, few of which made much impact outside Spanish-speaking countries , though many of them are well worth seeking out . As he went on filming "The Great Madcap" , ¨The brute¨, "Wuthering Heights", ¨El¨ , "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De la Cruz" , ¨Robinson Crusoe¨ , ¨Death in the garden¨ and many others . And finally his second French-Spanish period , usually in collaboration with producer Serge Silberman and writer Jean-Claude Carrière with notorious as well as polemic films , such as : ¨Viridiana¨ , Tristana¨ , ¨The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" and his last picture , "That Obscure Object of Desire" . Rating : 6.5/10 . Essential and indispensable seeing for Luis Buñuel aficionados.
