Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
Reseña de Taryn Kamita: Heightened emotion and contradictory resolutions characterize the transgeneric mode of melodrama. During the post World War II era, an adroit auteur attempted to address his nation’s experience of coping with industrialization and urbanization in the middle of the 20th century. Los Olvidados (1950), directed by Luis Buñuel, places the viewer in the slums of Mexico City and follows the exploits of the city’s corrupted youth. Exercising an inimitable amalgam of styles and genres, Buñuel explores the…