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Los Olvidados

Los Olvidados

Certificate 12A

Dir. Luis Buñuel
Mexico, 1950, 81 mins
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Cast: Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán, Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo

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Seen by many as the precursor to films such as Amores Perros, City of God and A Clockwork Orange, Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados is a fictional, but unsentimental, portrait of slum kids living the poverty and brutality of post-World War Two Mexico City. A film which tackles such a realist subject might seem strange from a director so closely associated with the surrealist movement, but Buñuel’s trademark dream sequences and transcendental moments play a key part in revealing the consciousness of the film’s protagonist. A brutally candid, but beautifully crafted film, which still has the power to shock.

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