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.
Acting
Pedro Armendáriz physically embodies brute force cracking open to tenderness
Direction
Buñuel's documentary realism makes the melodrama hit like a gut punch
Cinematography
Shadows and slaughterhouse grime that reek of poverty and desire
Director
Luis Buñuel
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