El bruto

1953 [SPANISH]

Action / Drama

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 2489 2.5K

escape fight solidarity butcher's shop community neighbor

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Plot summary

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

Director

Luis Buñuel Photo
Luis Buñuel

Top cast

Rosita Arenas Photo
Rosita Arenas as Meche
Manuel Trejo Morales Photo
Manuel Trejo Morales as Velador con bicicleta
Guillermo Bravo Sosa Photo
Guillermo Bravo Sosa as El Cojo - Tío de María
Pedro Armendáriz Photo
Pedro Armendáriz as Pedro - El Bruto
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742.29 MB
978*720
Spanish 2.0
Not Rated
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23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 1
1.35 GB
1456*1072
Spanish 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 5 / 10

The characters are all dumb and extremely overreactive

The characters are all dumb and extremely overreactive. The lead feels like a supporting character, and it's silly that there are attractive women fighting over him. This is one of those films where the plot points are too heavy; they sound alright on paper, but played out, they're a stretch of the imagination. We have a problem with tenants -- kill them. We're standing next to each other -- are we going to get married now? The police are going to arrest me -- I must gunfight them and die for all of you people I didn't care about and threatened to kill most of the movie. Melodramatic not-so-neorealist absurdity is how I'd best define this piece.
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

After his collaboration with Dalí at the height

After his collaboration with Dalí at the height of surrealism, Luis Buñuel laid low and then re-emerged in Mexico where he slowly rebuilt his career with a series of commercial films for local producers. Some of these films are now recognised as important parts of his oeuvre (Los Olvidados, The Exterminating Angel) but many remain virtually unknown. El Bruto falls into the latter category. Clocking in at a trim 80 minutes, it is basically straight melodrama. Although Buñuel's usual interests (surrealism, feet, insects) are absent, there is a strong Marxist undercurrent which aligns with his political orientation. A rich landlord hires El Bruto, more brawn than brains working at a slaughterhouse, to help him evict some poor tenants who are organized to fight. Poor Bruto punches a sick old man who later dies; even worse, he falls in love with the man's daughter who freaks out when she discovers Bruto is responsible for her father's death. All the while, the landlord's wife is virtually throwing herself at Bruto. Well, it doesn't end well for any of them. Worth a look but not up there with Buñuel's masterworks by any stretch of the imagination.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

F 8.1 [Luis Buñuel] [Mx]

F 8.1 [Luis Buñuel] [Mx]
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