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Los Olvidados is the first film of Luis Buñuel’s “Mexican years”, a period corresponding to the Spanish filmmaker’s exile in Mexico. Portraying the daily life of a marginalized youth struck by poverty and violence, the film marks Buñuel’s passage from a surrealist aesthetic to the traditional social realist cinema genre – a transition that coincides with his arrival in Mexico and his witnessing of the country’s social reconfiguration. Exponent of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, the film earned Buñuel the Award for Best Director at the Cannes Festival in 1951.
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Cast:
Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán -
Original Title:
Los Olvidados -
Country:
Mexico -
Year:
1950 - 85’ Subtitles: Portuguese
Director
Luis Buñuel
Born in Spain, in 1900. Luís Buñuel was a leading figure in Surrealism. An atheist and communist sympathizer who was preoccupied with themes of gratuitous cruelty, eroticism, and religious mania.
In 1917, he entered the Residencia de Estudiantes cultural institution in Madrid, where he met Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. In 1924, he moved to Paris and worked as an assistant to the filmmaker Jean Epstein. In 1929, he released his first film, Un chien Andalou, with a screenplay by Dalí. In Mexico, he shot The forgotten (1947), which won him his first prize for best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951. In 1961, he returned to Spain and began filming Viridiana, which won him the Palme d'Or in Cannes. In 1967, he received the Golden Lion at the Venice film Festival for Belle de Jour. He died in Mexico in 1983.
In 1917, he entered the Residencia de Estudiantes cultural institution in Madrid, where he met Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. In 1924, he moved to Paris and worked as an assistant to the filmmaker Jean Epstein. In 1929, he released his first film, Un chien Andalou, with a screenplay by Dalí. In Mexico, he shot The forgotten (1947), which won him his first prize for best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951. In 1961, he returned to Spain and began filming Viridiana, which won him the Palme d'Or in Cannes. In 1967, he received the Golden Lion at the Venice film Festival for Belle de Jour. He died in Mexico in 1983.
