The Young and the Damned (Los olvidados)

I read a 1950s horror comic last month in which a mad scientist kidnaps two starry-eyed youths who are madly in love and locks them in a cage without food or water as part of a sadistic experiment which he proposes will prove that the bonds of love will easily crumble once…

laird

De las representaciones mas fieles y desgarradoras de la juventud en situaciones precarias. una tragedia totalmente atemporal y actual, a pesar de haber sido estrenada hace más de 70 años. 9 pesos de 10

basty2049

What a magnificent, raw, and realistic work about problems so many choose to ignore. An urban narrative stripped of sweetness and euphemism, one that tears apart the romanticized idealizations of a society that refuses to look at its own abandoned children, at the open…

noen

Duele que la película sea tan vieja y se sienta tan actual.

Perrito Cinéfilo

I expected this to be another Bunuel satire or something with at least a touch of humor to it, but instead, it was a brutal, sometimes bizarre story of poverty, juvenile delinquency, and general tragedy. It follows a group of kids as they cause trouble, but quickly focuses…

Sally Jane Black

RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL AQUI ACTION! - LUIS BUNUEL: BETWEEN SOCIAL REALISM AND SURREALISM The film opens with a warning, basically telling us that this won’t be pretty. Hope has already left the building, and what follows is a bleak portrait of human decay, where the characters…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Buñuel’s poisoned surrealism pierces mercilessly into a forgotten reality, and we are forced to witness it. A cold, cynical figure, a statistic among millions, a mound of detritus no one would dare sift through. Yet Buñuel digs. But what exactly is he unearthing… did he…

wersku

I've never been more conflicted than ever on what to label such an effort but whichever category you would place it in, whether it be Mexican realism or surrealism, Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados is still one of the finest films about poverty to have ever been made. The films…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

Drenched in tragedy by Luis Buñuel. I falsely made myself believe in a positive turn, but then all my hopes was thrown in the ditch with the rest of the trash.

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