The Young One (1960)

RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL AQUI ACTION! - LUIS BUNUEL: BETWEEN SOCIAL REALISM AND SURREALISM Buñuel’s second—and final—English-language film sits comfortably within the filmmaker’s familiar thematic wheelhouse, tackling the darker sides of human behavior, with racism taking center…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Somewhere at the American South, a black musician is falsely accused of raping a white woman and to save his life he escapes to a private island where the only inhabitants are a racist game warden and the teenage daughter of his deceased assistant. I don't know if "The…

panos75

Spoilers and mention of sexual assault ahead. Luis Buñuel's impressive The Young One is set on an island game preserve, home to Miller (played by Zachary Scott, who is excellent, and whose hair looks distractingly soft), a caretaker, his handyman Pee Wee, and Pee Wee's…

sakana1

Bunuel's take on racism is about as heavy-handed as his take on sexism and possessiveness with El, but it has so much more going for it. It's a complex cat-and-mouse back-and-forth that uses tension and a strange form of camaraderie to make its points on race, but also…

Sally Jane Black

[Favorites of 1960s] Despite being Luis Buñuel's only film to be shot exclusively in English (his other English-language production, the 1954 Robinson Crusoe, was simultaneously produced in Spanish), featuring a mostly American cast, and containing the then (and now)…

Arsaib Gilbert

A jazz musician seeks refugee from a lynch mob coming for him, in his quest for hiding he stumbles upon a young kid and a man "caring for her." Bunuel most "normal" film to date still touches on some topics in a way that might hurt many viewers experience, especially…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

a black man plays a clarinet, a white man throws a grenade into a field in response. buñuel knew

ddzzaaii

An impressively dense and compact work that tackles the subject of north american racism through a reimagining of Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’. Buñuel’s moral complexity and assured mise en scène, alongside his refusal to treat his matter with a manichaeist edge nor a discursive…

Diogo Serafim

This has much of Buñuel's obsessions with the dark side of humanity but doesn't have as much cynicism as its core, which is interesting. It's good, though. Really turns into a character study as we end up spending a lot of time with the three main characters, and all are…

Bryan Loomis