Next Tuesday is the centenary of the birth of the great Spanish director, Luis Bunuel. The Irish Film Centre, in collaboration with the Mexican Embassy in Dublin, is celebrating his birthday with a special screening at 6 p.m. of his 1950 Mexican film, Los Olvidados. It will be introduced by Neil Jordan.
Working within the genre of the liberal "social conscience" picture, but refusing to conform to its simplistic morality, Bunuel paints a much harsher portrait of human weakness and desire through the story of a pair of juvenile criminals.
This one-off event is intended as a prelude to a more substantial Bunuel retrospective which the IFC hopes to mount later this year. (IFC box office tel: 01 6793477).
