The Brute

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The Brute

1953,

1h 23m,

Drama

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88%

8 Reviews

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74%

500+ Ratings

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88%

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8 Reviews

74%

Popcornmeter

500+ Ratings

A Mexican landlord (Andrés Soler) and his mistress (Katy Jurado) take advantage of a simple brute (Pedro Armendáriz).

Vincent Canby

New York Times

May 20, 2003

2.5/5

Bunuel, for the first time in his life, was busy earning a decent living by turning out popular comedies and melodramas for Latin American audiences and, occasionally, making films of real distinction. El Bruto is not one of these.

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

May 18, 2002

3.5/4

Sure, El Bruto is relatively apolitical but that's because Buuel is drunk on animal magnetism.

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John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

Feb 25, 2008

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

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Nov 29, 2007

[A] rambunctious, entertaining film.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 6, 2005

4/5

Lance Goldenberg

Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)

Mar 5, 2004

5/5

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Finn R

Feb 18, 2017

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.

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Poe S

Apr 29, 2016

F 8.1 [Luis Buñuel] [Mx]

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Synopsis

A Mexican landlord (Andrés Soler) and his mistress (Katy Jurado) take advantage of a simple brute (Pedro Armendáriz).

Director: Luis Buñuel
Producer: Gabriel Castro, Sergio Kogan
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 29, 2021
Runtime: 1h 23m

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