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Los Olvidados [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America]

Luis Buñuel (Director)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
IMDb8.2/10.0
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Format NTSC, Import
Contributor Miguel Inclán, Estela Inda, Luis Buñuel, Roberto Cobo
Runtime 1 hour and 25 minutes

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El Jaibo, un adolescente, escapa de la correccional y se reune en el barrio con sus amigos. Junto con Pedro y otro niño, trata de asaltar a Don Carmelo. Días después, el Jaibo mata en presencia de Pedro al muchacho que supuestamente tuvo la culpa de que lo enviaran a la correccional. A partir de este incidente, los destinos de Pedro y de el Jaibo estarán trágicamente unidos.

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Luis Buñuel
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Import
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 25 minutes
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Roberto Cobo, Miguel Inclán, Estela Inda
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001S400C0
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  • Pato Corona
    5.0 out of 5 stars IT MADE A HUGE IMPACT ON ME WHEN I WAS A KID!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2013
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    (IT CREATED SUCH CONTROVERSY WHEN IT WAS RELEASED IN MEXICO, THAT BUÑUEL AND HIS FILM MAKER COLLEGES INVOLVED IN IT, WERE ALMOST SENT BACK TO SPAIN, SINCE MEXICO HAD GIVING THEM REFUGE DUE TO FRANCO'S REPRESSION)
    I watched Los Olvidados from Luis Buñuel on TV when I was 7 years of age. It made a huge impact on my life because Los Olvidados is a very deep emotional film about abandoned kids in Mexico City who due their circumstances turn to be criminals. Watching this film as a kid made me realized how insensitive, cruel and heartless a human being could turn into. I remember having nightmares several days after about the last scene of the movie, probably because I watched it alone with no adult explaining to me the plot. I could never forget this film.
    I have a 3 year old now, and I will certainly watch the film with him when the right time comes. I believe its very important as human beings to understand at a young age the failed results of a society with a very uneven distribution of wealth; it will come back to bite us in the butt, even to the very wealthy ones.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best films about Mexican youth & delincuency from Luis Bunuel
    Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2013
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    THE FORGOTTEN ONES (translation) is really a powerful film about the children who live in the slums of Mexico. Roberto Cobo is especally good in his role as a delinquent and later became a real star as a transvestite in Arturo Ripstein's THE PLACE WITHOUT LIMITS.

    Director Bunuel shows us the seamier side of life among this small gang of kids, the lascivity of "old men" and young women, the exploitation of the "blind man" and the mistaken beliefs of idols instead of Christian values. The story is full of deceptions by parents who bring up their children but leave them to pursue their lives in an indifferent and cruel society where death is the only escape.

    Filmed on the outskirts of Mexico City, there is a set piece of an unfinished building of a hotel which symbolies the poverty and futility of Mexico's youth of 1950. A great Bunuel film, second to VIRIDIANA, his greatest critique of the Catholic church (also available on amazon.)
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  • Stephen C. Bird
    4.0 out of 5 stars "No Es Optimista"
    Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2011
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    This is at least the 3rd time I have seen this film. "Los Olvidados" is ultimately a cautionary tale, a battle between good and evil filled with various archetypes--vicious, amoral El Jaibo (Roberto Cobo); conflicted Pedro (Alfonso Mejia), his partner-in crime, who although basically good, is attracted to El Jaibo's delinquent world; decent, hard-working, compassionate Julián (Javier Amézcua); Don Carmelo the blind musician (Miguel Inclán), a misanthrope who, in wishing death upon all the misfortunate children, thinks he is doing them a favor. Pedro's difficult, put upon mother (Estela Inda) neglects him and causes him to rebel; she also ends up being seduced by evil (in the form of El Jaibo). At one point in the picture, Pedro is placed in a type of reform school, and his given his freedom by the director. However, immediately upon leaving the school, Pedro encounters El Jaibo, and his downward spiral recommences.

    Highlights include the famous dream sequence of Chapter 3, and El Jaibo's dream-hallucination sequence in the final scene of the film. In those sequences, Bunuel's surrealism appears, although otherwise the style of the picture could be described as brutal realism. The score by Rodolfo Halffter is melodramatic, moody, and an excellent complement to the film. The set and background features a smoky, dirty atmosphere accentuating the gritty life of the characters. There are creepy fairy-tale like touches as well, for example, the exterior of Meche's (Alma Delia Fuentes) Dickensian shack, the interior of which is crowded with humans; burros and chickens reside in the adjacent shack. Supplemental material is featured in the "características especiales" portion of this DVD, including biographies of the picture's participants and an alternate "happy" ending to the film.

    Stephen C. Bird
    Author, "To Be to Is to Was"
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  • Damaris S. Luckey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2011
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    The true reality of youngsters living in the harsh streets of Mexico City. Universal topic and never outdated, as the situation for the youth has not changed even after half a century. Was banned in Mexico when it came out and had to be released in France, which caused a big outcry in the European countries. Mexico did not like this and the movie dissappeared "mysteriously" to be found in the 80's in the basement of the film archaves, stashed away in the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. I use it to parallel story with EL Lazarillo de Tormes and to teach Realismo Mágico (Magical realism). Fair warning that it is violent and has some disturbing content,for which I warn the audience before showing it.I Highly recommend it.
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  • Looking Closer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Film About the Social Destruction of Poverty
    Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2019
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    No better film has been made on the destruction poverty has on a society. A hopeless fall and inevitable death of mind, body, and spirit by those who are imprisoned by poverty. There is no escape for the children portrayed in this film. Even there efforts to rise up from their hellish existence is thwarted by the maleficent forces around them. The end is what you'd expect. Wonderful storytelling and visualization by Bunuel. No car chases or superheroes, just the awful truth about life.
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  • H. C. Cruzado
    5.0 out of 5 stars A truly realistic movie about the lives of the poor and uneducated
    Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2017
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    A truly realistic movie about the lives of the poor and uneducated. I can understand why the movie was not liked at all in Mexico, where the action takes place. There are some really evil characters, a few good ones, and many others who are either ignorant or unconcerned. I was really moved by the character of the boy abandoned in the city by his father, who just told him, before walking out of his life, "Stay here and do not move until I come back."
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  • M. Sexton
    5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary film!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2020
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    I had viewed this movie a number of times, as I had purchased it on a videocassette several decades ago. I had not seen it for a decade or more, and it is still as powerful as ever. Stunning depiction of poverty! Wow!
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  • Magic
    5.0 out of 5 stars Top Dvd
    Reviewed in Germany on November 17, 2024
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    Alles gut gelaufen.
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  • Cliente de Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buenisima !!
    Reviewed in Mexico on April 20, 2018
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    La película es muy buena y sigue retratando con vigencia esa parte de la sociedad carente de oportunidades y valores
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  • Film lover
    5.0 out of 5 stars Don`t miss this one! Finally available in Canada!
    Reviewed in Canada on February 28, 2017
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    A savage attack on living conditions in the slums of Mexico City. Nobody is spared in this film, nor should they be!
    This is life as harsh as it gets, with almost no sympathetic characters.
    Yet Bunuel`s surrealist style keeps this a fiction film, rather than a documentary.
    I have waited years to finally get a copy of this film in Canada, and I can say unequivocally that the wait was worth it.
    Bravo!
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  • VICTOR MANUEL MUNOZ CAYUELA
    5.0 out of 5 stars Patrimonio de la humanidad
    Reviewed in Spain on March 11, 2015
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    Obra maestra de Buñuel. Esta película,ambientada en un barrio pobre mexicano en lo años 50, está catalogada como patrimonio de la humanidad por la UNESCO.
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  • Film Buff
    5.0 out of 5 stars Assault and Disturbance
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2013
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    Los Olvidados ('The Young and the Damned', actually more correctly translated as 'The Forgotten Ones') is the 1950 social realist film that put Luis Bunuel back on the map as a film-maker. Having scandalized middle class sensitivities with the surrealist classics Un chien Andalou (1928) and L'Age d'or (1930) in Paris with Salvator Dali, he made a strange 'documentary' about a dismal Spanish village called Las Hurdes (1932) before vanishing for 15 years. His autobiography 'My Last Breath' (which I highly recommend) has him picking up odd jobs around Hollywood studios and even in MOMA in New York, but we can't really be sure what he did. He eventually fetched up in Mexico in 1946 where he went on to make two inconsequential dramas, Gran Casino (1948) and The Great Madcap (1949) which producer Oscar Dancigers saw. Bunuel already had another script ready, but Dancigers had no doubt seen some of the Italian Neo-realist films of the period like Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948), Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City (1945) and Paisan (1946) and maybe even Luchino Visconti's Ossessione (1942) and La Terra Trema (1948). He wanted Bunuel to make a film in the same social realist tradition about the slums of Mexico City. It's very interesting then that without Dancigers Bunuel probably would not have made his crunching study of the poor which took the 1951 Cannes audiences so by surprise and which got Bunuel the Best Director award. I say 'crunching' because the film is a tale of truly horrific dimensions. As Derek Malcolm says in the accompanying introduction with this DVD, watching it is akin to being punched in the guts for 80 minutes without let up, so despicable is the human behaviour Bunuel (and screenwriter Luis Alcoriza) put in front of us.

    The film is about a group of destitute kids and their daily lives in a slum. Their leader is Jaibo (Roberto Cobo), a truly nasty piece of work who rejoins his gang after leaving juvenile jail. Aided by Pedro (Alfonso Mejia) he tracks down Julian (Javier Amezcula) who he thinks fingered him. In a scene designed to show the sheer propensity for evil kids have, Jaibo hides a rock in a sling, pretending his arm is broken only to beat his prey to death with it. Pedro is relatively innocent up to this point, but now he is an accomplice to murder and has to shut up to protect Jaibo who goes on to use him throughout the film. Bunuel truly rubs our noses in the sheer horror of everyday slum life here. No character is good in this world of survival at any cost. The gang beat up a blind street musician (Miguel Inclan), but when the man's stick is studded with a rusty nail which he uses to assail his attackers, and when he proves in any case to be a paedophile, it's hard to feel sympathy. The group mug a legless cripple, kicking his support trolley down a hill. Another (this time well dressed) paedophile tries to pick up Pedro. Pedro's mother (Stella Inda) makes clear she hates her son by beating and screaming at him at every chance. She even allows herself to be seduced by Jaibo in a truly toe-curling sequence, and eventually gets rid of her son by sending him to a 'farm school'. Here we meet the film's only truly sympathetic character, the school head (Francisco Jambrina) who starts to show Pedro the way out. Here we have a twist of a Dickensian variety. The head trusts Pedro with money to go and buy tobacco for him. The boy is intent on making good, but Bill Sykes (I mean Jaibo) catches him outside and he is once more mired in slum conditions. Dickens magics up a happy ending for his tale, not so with Bunuel. The ending here is as heart rending as any I have ever seen in the cinema. The sheer pitiless inhumanity is deeply shocking, all the more so as one of the characters involved (the beautiful girl, Alma Delia Fuentes) has been Pedro's closest friend throughout the film.

    Italian Neo-realism was based on a desire to throw off the cosy artificiality of Hollywood melodrama. Suddenly the stress was on location shooting, semi-documentary methods, improvised dialog, working class themes, real people working in real places and the idea of poor people being victims of the environment that conditions them. Los Olvidados goes along with most of this. It opens with a voice over declaring the general theme of every city having it's slum area. This is similar to the way La Terra Trema begins for example. Certainly Bunuel does show the truth of environmental conditioning, but there's more to it than that. For Bunuel, people are people beyond the remit of their environment. They all have their own desires, material, sexual or otherwise as shown in two surreal dream sequences (the first portraying Pedro's guilt at being involved in murder and the second having Jaibo being sucked into a hole as he dies) and in the behaviour especially of the mother. Nothing 'conditions' her to hate her son or want to have sex with Jaibo - it's her desire pure and simple. Also lacking in Los Olvidados is the use of children as a mirror to show up the horror that surrounds them - the boy at the end of Bicycle Thieves, the boys who watch the priest's death at the end of Rome Open City. Here the kids are evil incarnate. And they grow up (if they survive that is) to be even worse, if that is possible. There is a harsh pitilessness here which though tempered by short scenes of affection (the girl running milk over her legs and responding to Pedro's gifts, the mother eventually showing concern) is deeply shocking nevertheless. Bunuel's Neo-realism is one of assault and disturbance and it gets to the route of reality much more directly and honestly than even the best of the Italian Neo-realist films.

    I notice some reviews here see Los Olvidados as being Bunuel's best. Well, it's certainly one of them, but he did go on to make equally devastating attacks on the world as he saw it in El (1952), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955), Nazarin (1958) and especially (the two films I think are really his greatest works) Viridiana (1961) and The Exterminating Angel (1962). Derek Malcolm relates that Bunuel's biggest regret was that he never made a film in Hollywood. I for one am glad he never did. Softening his critical edge for the sake of 'entertainment', such a prospect would have robbed us of some the greatest films cinema has to offer us. This DVD is very good by the way. The picture is clean, if not completely without blur when the camera pans quickly especially across dark scenes. A 'happy' alternative ending was unearthed and digitalized in 2002, but sadly it hasn't been attached to this DVD as an extra. As it is we only have the said Derek Malcolm introduction which I feel could have been deeper - less clips from the film and more critical analysis would have helped. I bought this for less than a fiver which makes it a sure recommendation.
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