Los Olvidados (1959)

IN IT'S GLORIOUS BLACK AND WHITE THIS MULTI REGION DVD (1 & 4)WILL PLAY IN U.S. DVD PLAYERS, CANADA AND SOUTH AMERICA. IT IS IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE ALTERNATIVE ENDING, BIOGRAPHIES, ANECDOTARIA AND PHOTO GALLERY. THIS CLASSIC MOVIE WON 11 ARIELES INCLUDING BEST PICTURE AND BEST DIRECTOR ALSO WON AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL IN 1951 Product Description

In the World of the Young and Damned

The story of troubled youth and urban violence has been told many times, but this is, perhaps, the best film on the subject ever made. This is an unblinking look at the hell on earth that looks like slums of Mexico City. It is also a masterful combination of gritty realism and Buñuel's surrealism like in the scene of young Pedro's dream of Virgin Mary with a face of his mother whose love he desperately needs but never knows.

All the characters, including a young boy caught up in a criminal world but trying to be good, his tired mother who does not have time to love her children, the brutal and cruel gang leader with his own story that breaks your heart are not just wonderfully written and acted, they are absolutely real and would stay with you long after the film is over. Shocking, erotic, and sad, this is a masterpiece - the perfect film from the beginning until the harrowing and devastating end.


February 26, 2007

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