Mexican Bus Ride
ComedyDrama
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
VIBE
A darkly comedic and surreal journey through rural Mexico. It’s a dreamlike, episodic trip filled with eccentric characters and existential dread, all wrapped in a wry, mid-century aesthetic. The film feels like a fever dream on wheels.
melancholicabsurdistwrydreamlikesteadymid-century Latin American cinemasurrealistcharacter-drivenmortalityfamilytemptationthe absurd
race against timefuneralranchbus ridelawyerinheritancepolitical campaigntemptationdeathbedtemptress1950sadult illiteracy
