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The Young and the Damned

Los olvidados

1950

Luis Buñuel

Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán, Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo ...

8.3

14,752

Drama El Jaibo is a teenager who escapes from a reformatory institution and joins his friends in the neighborhood. After a couple of days, el Jaibo kills, with the presence of his friend Pedro, the boy who apparently was responsible for his stay in the reformatory. Since then, the fate of Pedro and el Jaibo would be tragically related.

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"The most horrifying of all films about juvenile crime"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Buñuel's apparent lack of compassion for his juvenile delinquents is what finally makes the film an unusually powerful social document and a disturbing piece of drama"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Although made with meticulous realism and unquestioned fidelity to facts, its qualifications as dramatic entertainment — or even social reportage — are dim"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tom Dawson BBC	"A stunning portrait of slum kids in post-World War II Mexico City (...) it's a powerfully unsentimental and morally ambiguous work (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Buñuel powerfully stacks one sign on top of another, and the emotional force of the pile-up only intensifies the sadness and desperation of his characters (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is the poetic departure from this reality that makes 'Los Olvidados' so riveting (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nick Funnell Time Out	"It’s a masterpiece that tangles individual and social ills into a knot"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Bunuel's superb and uncompromising portrait of the the debasement of humanity in certain situations retains all of its original power (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Variety	"[Bunuel] has cast his eye on a cancerous aspect of society, and made a jolting pic."	POS

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