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Film · 1950 · Drama
Los Olvidados
Directed by Luis Bunuel
1950
★ 5.8 editorial score
Mexico City pulled it after three days and demanded it be banned, then Cannes gave Bunuel the directing prize: street children filmed without a trace of sentimentality about them.
“"Los Olvidados" [is] an "attack on the sadness that ruins children before they have a chance"...Los Olvidados was vilified by the country's xenophobic press and labor unions who claimed the film dishonored "their" Mexico. By calling attention to the misery of Mexico City's young street urchins, Buñuel exposed an "evil" hiding behind the imposing structures of every big modern city.”
