Product Description

Black & White - Import - Region 1 - NTSC

Cover and Menu in Spanish - Spanish Audio with English Subtitles

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards, Luis Bunuel's Los Olividados (The Forgotten and The Young and the Damned) was the director's first international box-office success and the beginning of a new era.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23607 in DVD
• Published on: 2004
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Black & White, Import, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: Spanish
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Features

• Region 1 NTSC - Spanish Audio with English Subtitles
• Cover and Menus in Spanish

Customer Reviews

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.

Los olvidados
This is one of Buñuel's best films, and one of the most unusual because of its "realistic" characteristics. Its impact remains intact after decades, the images potent, and there are gems to be discovered every time one sees it. Try to count how many times roosters, chickens, and even baby chicks appear in the film, for instance, and why. Or how many visual echoes there are (repetition of particular frames, for instance). The dream sequence is still as searingly beautiful as when I first saw it (gapingly, at age 16!). Not to be missed.

great movie, finally on dvd
this wasn't available on dvd for a really long time, good to see it finally is. it should be noted that this was released in 1950, not 1959 as the amazon description states. will comment on the quality of the picture when i get the disc in hand.