Los Olvidados

Director: Luis Buñuel

1950 / 88min / 35mm

Driven to delinquency and worse by poverty, the shanty-dwelling adolescents of Buñuel’s baleful, beautiful, utterly unsentimental film are preyed on by the more powerful, and prey on others—legless beggars and the weak in their own ranks—in turn. Showing its director’s core surrealism still teasingly peeking from behind its neorealist surfaces—and what surfaces, as luminously shot by the unparalleled Gabriel Figueroa—Los Olvidados brought fresh attention to Buñuel, nearly forgotten in his Mexican exile. “A masterwork… with perhaps the greatest of all movie dream sequences.”—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker