On a volé un tram

Illusion Travels by Streetcar is a wild ride of situations that little by little derail to make for a fascinating mess of ridiculous situations. The film manages to be both a celebration of life, a playful retelling of the Christian mythology in a Georges Méliès-esque manner, and a criticism of capitalist companies and their ineffective operation. While neither the most meaningful, nor the most coherent Luis Buñuel movie, it nevertheless is one of the most enjoyable.

Two streetcar conductors whose streetcar is set to be dismantled sneak into the station late one night to take it for one last spin. They spend all night and most of the next day having small adventured throughout Mexico City. Agustin Isunza is the film's standout as an old man, Papa Pinillos, who worked for the streetcar company most of his life. He was laid off a while back, but he does little with his time besides get on random streetcars to see if their drivers are competent. When he jumps on the 133, he quickly realizes that it's stolen and he spends the rest of the film desperately trying to get the company to believe him. It's a fun movie and very charming. Not a necessary Bunuel film, but fans should certainly catch it. 8/10.

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.

To all Buñuel fans that haven't seen this one, let me tell you that the big laugh comes at the end and keeps you laughing for a long time.after the movie is over. Very unusual for Buñuel, but nevertheless very realistic and enjoyable. For the delightful laughing effect he produced at the end, I rated 9.5.

The newly born Servicio DE Transportes Eléctricos del D.F. had to do this film to demeaning the bad press caused by "La Venta" accident the previous year, the story and some actors come from Subida al Cielo, and show the company shops at Indianilla neighborhood in México City. Aside from Buñuel intention of a series of sit-coms, his surrealism becomes an every day fact in the Mexican way of life, such anecdotes still happen at STE, now mostly with trolleybuses and the Xochimilco LRV. When we got a VHS copy, we showed it at Tetepilco depot, amusingly the Transportation Dept. boss was also an Ingeniero Benítez, and our efforts to save rolling stock from the torch, have became a nice Traction Museum, without everyone around getting drunk, I'm the Union Historian and had to check it frame by frame to list appearing units: At the opening scene we see several types later succeeded by the first Westram trolley-coaches and a PCC in the Transfer-table, 133 real number was 378, a Brill 11 windows 2-trucker, many points of Mexico City to be checked, for example when they leave the school kids at a filming it was at Calzada de Tlalpan across the gates of CLASA-Films! and the Overhead-repair trolley that block the return to the depot is to be restored at Tetepilco Museum. must add more comments later---