The Young One

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A film by Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel's rarely-seen gem THE YOUNG ONE takes his oft-expressed themes of morality and sexual perversity and relocates them to the South of the United States. Evvie is a young girl on the brink of womanhood who lives with her grandfather, Pee-Wee on a rural property presided over by the gamekeeper, Miller. Pee-Wee dies suddenly, leaving Evvie in Miller's care: an unwilling object of his sexual affections. When Traver, a black musician from the North who has been falsely accused of raping a white woman, happens upon Evvie, he is compelled to help her escape Miller's lecherous control. Buñuel's first English-language film is a triumph of thematic subtleties and impeccable style. DVD Special Features The Young One: Buñuel's neglected masterpiece: an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader (1987–2007) and author of several books, most recently Discovering Orson Welles (2007)

Release Date: 21/10/2009
Audio tracks: Mono
Languages: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Luis Buñuel
Runtime: 96.0 mins
Format: DVD, Region 4 (PAL)
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Widescreen Full Height Anamorphic
Catalogue: MSC032

"…a rarely shown English-language gem… can now take its rightful place next to the director's other masterworks." TV GUIDE

"Visually, the little-seen THE YOUNG ONE is Buñuel's most expressive film." SLANT MAGAZINE

"Thematically complex... Buñuel has made of his potentially exploitative material an amoral parable, outlining the ways 'civilisation' can prove as harmful or as beneficial as untamed nature." TIME OUT

"Full of poetic asides and unexpected developments, revealing Buñuel’s dark, philosophical wit at its most personal." Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER