In [Bunuel's] vigorous storytelling, he not only finds forceful images in the drama’s reality, but adds a dream sequence — a miniature masterpiece that, by itself, is reason enough to see the film.
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02/19/07
Los Olvidados (1950)
93 %
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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 28
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8.8/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: The best known film of Bunuel's Mexican period, LOS OLVIDADOS looks unflinchingly at life in a Mexican slum. At the center of the story are Pedro, a young boy who is walking the line between delinquency and responsibility, and Jaibo, an... [More]
Starring: Roberto Cobo, Javier Amezcua, Efrain Arauz, Jesus Navarro
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Reviews for Los Olvidados
Casts an unblinking gaze on the wretched lives of amoral Mexico City slum kids without sentiment or preaching.
02/16/07
Buñuel was, among other things, the great dirty surrealist of cinema.
02/16/07
This is grim reality, and social realism is not precisely Buñuel's forte; it is the poetic departure from this reality that makes Los Olvidados so riveting.
02/16/07
A hugely influential film, foreshadowing the likes of A Clockwork Orange and Kids, and its matter-of-fact brilliance continues to astonish.
02/16/07
Bunuel's superb and uncompromising portrait of the the debasement of humanity in certain situations retains all of its original power.
02/14/07
The brilliantly acrimonious film is about connecting poverty with juvenile street crime.
02/09/06
It’s a masterpiece that tangles individual and social ills into a knot, which, as we’re warned in an opening voiceover, it offers no easy way to untie, rousing a sickening sense of injustice.
02/09/06
It's a heartbreaking, compulsively watchable work, and more truthful even than the Italian Neorealist work of the same period.
10/03/05
The film that Buñuel said reinvigorated his career, and indeed, its love of his young characters and his energetic, grassroots direction imbues it with a seemingly youthful vigor, even though Buñuel was 50 when he made it.
06/03/05
Top Critic Every viewing of Los Olvidados offers further proof of its perfection.
05/13/05
A sterling initiation to the director's unique, devastating combination of clear-eyed realism and left-field Freudian imagery.
05/12/05
This masterpiece of 1950 is a brutally candid tale of Mexican street life, laced with Bunuel's surrealistic touches.
01/27/05
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