Los Olvidados

The Young and the Damned

Luis Buñuel’s caustic gaze oversees the life of a youth gang on the streets of Mexico City, in an indictment of the violence borne out of poverty.

  • Director

    Luis Buñuel

  • With

    Alfonso Mejía, Stella Inda, Miguel Inclán, Roberto Cobo

  • Mexico 1950. 88min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Certificate

    12A

  • English subtitles

Fusing social realist and surrealistic elements, Buñuel’s film unflinchingly portrays the lives of a gang of juvenile delinquents on the destitute streets of Mexico City, led by the ruthless Jaibo. Edging towards neorealism but devoid of its sentimentalism, Buñuel zeroes in on the brutalities of life lived in poverty without any reprieve. It ranked among Barbara Loden’s favourite films.

Contains sexual violence, animal cruelty, violence.

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