The Brute

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item number:  34JG9
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El Bruto for $17
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 19, 2019
  • Originally Released: 1952
  • Label: Cinemateca

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 599
Rating: B -- One of the excellent early films Buñuel made while in Mexico. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Sure, El Bruto is relatively apolitical but that's because Buñuel is drunk on animal magnetism. Full Review
Slant Magazine
May 18, 2002
...A treat for students of the great Luis Buñuel....Unreconstructed surrealis[m]...
New York Times
Sep 21, 1983
[A] rambunctious, entertaining film. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Nov 30, 2007
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]hings take a melodramatic turn, with Buñuel showing his signature in the narrative's perversity.
Uncut
Mar 1, 2011
Rating: B- -- a Frankenstein variant as the title character is physically as strong as the cattle he slaughters, yet the gentle soul remains vulnerable to the charms of women Full Review
Old School Reviews
Feb 25, 2008
Rating: 4/5 -- Disturbing Bunuel film.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Aug 14, 2003

Product Description:

A working-class tough is hired to terrorize the tenants of a Mexico City apartment complex by the landlord. He kills one of the tenants and then falls in love with the victim's daughter, only to discover that the vicious landlord is his natural father.

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  • UPC: 736899112622
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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