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Mood:
- BleakDisturbingRoughGloomy
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Plot:
- GangJuvenile DelinquencySocial MisfitsParents and ChildrenRich and PoorDown on Your LuckTeenage LifeUrban Ghetto Life more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeign
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century40s
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Place:
- MexicoLatin AmericaUrbanUrban Ghetto
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedCannes Festival Winner
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Style:
- Surreal
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Look:
- B&W
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Flag:
- Violent Content
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Los Olvidados, 1950
Spanish
Mexico
Profile of Los Olvidados
The mood of Los Olvidados is disturbing, bleak, and rough. The plot centers around kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, and being rich or poor. It is a drama and foreign movie. Stylistically, Los Olvidados is surreal. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Los Olvidados takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. The setting is Mexico and South America. It happens in the 20th century. Visually, Los Olvidados is black and white. The movie is known for being a Cannes festival winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes violent content.
Summary of Los Olvidados
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 older, charismatic boy who has already chosen the former path. Jaibo exerts his influence over almost every boy in the village, and when he accidentally murders the only good role model Pedro has AND sleeps with Pedro's mother, it seems the path Pedro is to take has already determined itself. Full of offbeat images and symbolism, Bunuel mixes realism and surrealism in what became something of a trademark style for him, but the only other film Bunuel did that compares to the realism in this film is his documentary LAND WITHOUT BREAD. Like the Italian neo-realists, Bunuel used mostly non-professional actors and shot entirely on location. Constricted by a tight budget, Bunuel was not able to include a couple of surreal sequences he had originally conceived, but this is still one of Bunuel's most powerful films. Features the famous dream sequence where Pedro's mother floats after him with a raw piece of meat.
Details
| Language: | Spanish |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Release date: | 24 March 1952 |
| Runtime: | 85 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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Cast and Crew
as El Jaibo
as Julián
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