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Green 2022-06-20 18:20:19
When Buñuel meets a new reality
Los Olvidados, old Buñuel film, 1950, Mexico City, "The Forgotten People", aka "The Young and The Damned". Hopeless, unpretentious cruelty, a little dark humor. - Can you imagine a Buñuel film in the style of neorealism? Poverty, family problems, missing school and unemployment, little boy...
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Lucie 2022-06-20 18:09:06
Surrealism
Los Olvidados is Luis Buñuel's account of the never-ending cycle of poverty and despair in the slums of Mexico City, focusing on a group of destitute children and their misfortunes. Although Buñuel's work is considered to have a strong positive relationship with Surrealism and a critical attitude...
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