Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned)

Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned) (1950)

  • 94% of critics liked it
    (31 reviews)

  • 95% of users liked it
    (5,084 ratings)

The winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards, Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (aka The Forgotten Ones and The Young and the Damned) was the director's first international box-office success. Yet Buñuel showed no signs of curbing the outrageous iconoclasm that made him famous in Europe and South… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.
Directed By
Luis Buñuel
Written By
Luis Alcoriza, Luis Buñuel, Oscar Dancigers
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Mar 24, 1952 Wide
Arthur Mayer-Edward Kingsley I

Critic Reviews

  • G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

    The film that Buñuel said reinvigorated his career, and indeed, its love of his young characters and his energetic, grassroots direction imbues it with a seemingly youthful vigor, even though Buñuel was 50 when he made it.

  • J. Hoberman, Village Voice

    Once seen, this movie can never be forgotten.

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    Although made with meticulous realism and unquestioned fidelity to facts, its qualifications as dramatic entertainment -- or even social reportage -- are dim.

  • 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.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Bunuel's chronicle of juvenile delinquents in Mexico is one of the first and best features about this issue.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Elvira B


    Los Olvidados. The literal translation of it is "The Forgotten". And yet the English title is The Young and the Damned. More attractive, yes, but definitely not very accurate. Being young and damned supposes challenges indeed, but never the void implied in being Forgotten.… More

  • Tsubaki S


    Brutal, people hated this one in Mexico when it was released. Truth hurts indeed.

  • Stella D


    a searing indictment of poverty and document of the street life. pedro, ojitos and metche will break your heart. i won't soon forget this

  • Pierluigi P


    Buñuel's masterpiece is also one of the most crude and heart-breaking stories ever told about children growing up on the slums of a corrupt, violent, blind and messy city. one of the most depressive documents ever produced.

  • Megan S


    I had to watch this in a Spanish class in college. I don't really remember that much about it.

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