The Young One (1960)

Original title

La joven

Directed by

Luis Buñuel

Genre

drama film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

On a private game preserve, a teenage girl lives with an older caretaker. Their isolated life gets complicated when a black man arrives fleeing a lynching and a white man shows up wanting to bring the girl back to the mainland.

tenseuncomfortableslow-burnmorally complexbleakprovocativerestrainedclaustrophobic

What happens

The Young One (Spanish: La joven) (released as White Trash in the United States and Island of Shame in the United Kingdom) is a 1960 English-language Mexican drama film directed and co-written by Luis Buñuel, and starring Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton and Claudio Brook. "Inspired by" the story "Travelin' Man" by Peter Matthiessen, the film deals with issues such as racism and statutory rape by depicting the interactions between two men and a teenage girl on a private island game preserve. It was Buñuel's second (and last) film in English, following Robinson Crusoe (1954); both were co-written by Hugo Butler (under the pseudonym H. B. Addis) and produced by George Pepper (as George P. Werker), Americans who had moved to Mexico after being blacklisted in Hollywood based on their alleged membership of, or sympathy with the Communist Party USA. The Young One was screened in competition at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, and has received highly positive reviews since its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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