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L'enjôleuse

Original title: El bruto
  • 1953
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  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
2.4K
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L'enjôleuse (1953)
Drama

A tough young man who helps to evict poor people from their houses falls in love with a girl who lives with her father in a building that's about to be demolished.A tough young man who helps to evict poor people from their houses falls in love with a girl who lives with her father in a building that's about to be demolished.A tough young man who helps to evict poor people from their houses falls in love with a girl who lives with her father in a building that's about to be demolished.

  • Director
    • Luis Buñuel
  • Writers
    • Luis Alcoriza
    • Luis Buñuel
  • Stars
    • Pedro Armendáriz
    • Katy Jurado
    • Rosita Arenas
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    2.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Luis Buñuel
    • Writers
      • Luis Alcoriza
      • Luis Buñuel
    • Stars
      • Pedro Armendáriz
      • Katy Jurado
      • Rosita Arenas
    • 17User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Pedro Armendáriz
    Pedro Armendáriz
    • Pedro - El Bruto
    Katy Jurado
    Katy Jurado
    • Paloma
    Rosita Arenas
    Rosita Arenas
    • Meche
    • (as Rosa Arenas)
    Andrés Soler
    Andrés Soler
    • Andrés Cabrera
    Beatriz Ramos
    • Doña Marta
    Paco Martínez
    • Don Pepe
    Roberto Meyer
    • Carmelo González
    Gloria Mestre
    Gloria Mestre
    • María
    Paz Villegas
    • Mamá de María
    José Muñoz
    • Lencho Ruíz
    Diana Ochoa
    • Esposa de Lencho
    Ignacio Villalbazo
    • Vecino
    Joaquín Roche
    • Notario
    Guillermo Bravo Sosa
    • El Cojo - Tío de María
    • (as G. Bravo Sosa)
    Efraín Arauz
    Efraín Arauz
    • Vecino
    Lupe Carriles
    Lupe Carriles
    • Sirvienta de Andrés
    Raquel García
    • Vecina
    Agripina Anaya
    • Vecina
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Luis Buñuel
    • Writers
      • Luis Alcoriza
      • Luis Buñuel
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    Michael_Elliott

    The Brute

    Bruto, El (1952)

    *** (out of 4)

    A slumlord (Andres Soler) tries to evict some tenants from one of his rundown apartments but they refuse to go so he asks a strong but dumb Bruto (Pedro Armenariz) to scare them. Bruto goes to the man causing the most trouble not knowing that he is ill. After a strong punch the man dies and soon Bruto falls in love with a woman (Rosa Arenas) not realizing that it's the dead man's daughter. I was a little worried going into this film after reading some negative reviews but it turned out to be pretty good and didn't just focus or preach about how the poor are treated. As the film started I was thinking this was just going to be a morality tale but Bunuel takes the film into many different directions and really delivers a terrific character study for not only Bruto but the slumlord as well. I really enjoyed the way that Bunuel didn't just show both men as evil but showed that they both had good qualities below all the bad things that they do. The relationship with Paloma (Katy Jurado), the slumlord's much younger wife, gives us plenty of insight to the two men and especially with Bruto and his dumbness. I also loved the style that Bunuel brought to the film in terms of shadows, which is perfectly used during one scene where a group of men are chasing Bruto to kill him. What really keeps this film going are the terrific performances by the entire cast. Armenariz does a brilliant job at being the brute but his performance is made even better by the fact that he can pull off the character's weaker moments. Arenas is downright beautiful and very touching in her role and I really couldn't take my eyes off of Soler who really steals the film with his snake like qualities. This here certainly doesn't rank among the director's greatest works but I think it's still a very entertaining film with a lot going for it.
    10zetes

    Vastly underrated Bunuel masterpiece

    Perhaps hardcore Bunuel fans won't like El Bruto that much. It doesn't contain much of his surrealism. It is a lot like many of his other Mexican films: dark, melodramatic, brutal, and tragic. El Bruto is mostly a social melodrama, with a wealthy man trying to evict a group of poor residents from some slums that he owns. To intimidate these rebellious residents, he hires a giant thug, nicknamed El Bruto (the Brute, duh!). El Bruto is big and dumb and he follows orders well. But he's not a bad guy. He can be tough and mean, but, deep down, he's a gentle giant. Pedro Armendáriz is fantastic as the lead. The other major actors are as good. Katy Jurado, most famous for her role in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon from the same year, is much better in this film from her home country. The script is excellent, with some good (if a bit predictable) twists. I think that those who haven't "gotten" Bunuel yet might want to see this one. It's probably his most easily understood fim. It may not be exclusively Bunuelian, but El Bruto ranks with Luis' best films. 10/10.
    7christopher-underwood

    for Bunuel fans and non Bunuel fans

    Minor Bunuel maybe but what a tough little film and featuring the most steamy performance from the stand out Katy Jurado, already well into a film career that would last for almost another 50 years. Fantastic b/w photography and amazing control of crowded action sequences. Not much of the wily old surrealist on view here but he certainly turns in the most dramatic, violent and sexy of films that must have made much of the rest of Mexican cinema look a little stale. It would still be a few years before the director could get back into full stride but this this film must have ensured that he would be able to continue making films, even if temporarily, it was still to be in Mexico. So this is a fine piece of cinema for Bunuel fans and non Bunuel fans and incredible that it should have been so difficult to see for so many years.
    7bob998

    Routine, with some flashes of brilliance

    After watching four Bunuel films from his Mexican period, I conclude that by working in Mexico he was forced into making movies with sober stories and sober, even though corrupt, characters. El bruto could have been made by any American B movie director; Sam Peckinpah might have made a tight little classic out of it. There's no surrealism at all in this one.

    Pedro Armendariz uses his enormous star power to give an unforgettable performance as the brute, a 'slow thinker' as he calls himself--he's a Victor McLaglen type only a lot sexier. Katy Jurado, the female equivalent of Armendariz in popularity, is wonderfully mendacious here. And Andres Soler as the grasping landlord reminds me so much of Walter Huston; they could have been brothers. Enjoyable to watch, because of the performances, just don't expect the usual Bunuel touches.
    7ma-cortes

    Intense drama about landlords and tenants , being compellingly directed by the great genius Spanish , Luis Buñuel,

    In El Bruto, a violent, ox-like abattoir worker (the great Pedro Armendáriz) is hired by a wealthy and evil old man to do a slum landlord's dirty work . There he proceeds to destroy everyone around him . But the tough, tall and strong Bruto called Pedro will fall in love for a girl called Merche (Rosa Arenas) who lives with her father in the building about to be demolish . Meanwhile , Pedro will work in a butcher's shop , where is also Paloma (Katy Jurado) , Andres (Andres Soler)'s spouse, a mature woman who starts to feel attracted to El Bruto .

    Buñuel explores his characteristic themes of lust , jealousy , cruelty, class differences , hypocrisy and corruption . This isn't a typical Buñuel film , though there are some symbolism but no surrealism . Interesting and thought-provoking screenplay by the same Luis Buñuel and his usual Mexican collaborator Luis Alcoriza , being efficiently produced by Oscar Danzigers . After his first French period working in which he directed his two greatest surrealist films , he disappeared below the radar in Mexico on a variety of ultra-low-budget films, few of which made much impact outside Spanish-speaking countries , though many of them are well worth watching ; one of them is this ¨Le Brute¨ or ¨El Bruto¨ . Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both subversive behavior and gritty human dramas , issues well shown in this picture . Pretty good cast gives fine acting ; it is formed by nice Mexican actors such as Pedro Armendariz as El Bruto , a bouncing to kick out a poor people from their houses , Katy Jurado as a satanic Femme Fatale and the innocent and virginal Rosa Arenas .

    The motion picture was stunningly directed by Luis Buñuel who was voted the 14th Greatest Director of all time . This Buñuel's strange film belongs to his Mexican second period ; in fact , it's plenty of known Mexican actors . As Buñuel subsequently emigrated from Mexico to France where filmed other excellent movies . After moving to Paris , at the beginning Buñuel did a variety of film-related odd jobs , including working as an assistant to director Jean Epstein . With financial help from his mother and creative assistance from Dalí, he made his first film , this 17-minute "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), and immediately catapulted himself into film history thanks to its disturbing images and surrealist plot . The following year , sponsored by wealthy art patrons, he made his first picture , the scabrous witty and violent "Age of Gold" (1930), which mercilessly attacked the church and the middle classes, themes that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career . After his two avant-garde collaborations with fellow surrealist Salvador Dali , his career, though, seemed almost over by the mid-1930s, as he found work increasingly hard to come by and after the Spanish Civil War , where he made ¨Las Hurdes¨ , as Luis emigrated to the US where he worked for the Museum of Modern Art and as a film dubber for Warner Bros . He subsequently went on his Mexican period he teamed up with producer Óscar Dancigers and after a couple of unmemorable efforts shot back to international attention , reappearing at Cannes with ¨Los Olvidados¨ in 1951 , a lacerating study of Mexican street urchins , winning him the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival. But despite this new-found acclaim, Buñuel spent much of the next decade working on a variety of ultra-low-budget films, few of which made much impact outside Spanish-speaking countries , though many of them are well worth seeking out . As he went on filming "The Great Madcap" , ¨The brute¨, "Wuthering Heights", ¨El¨ , ¨Susana¨ , "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De la Cruz" , ¨Robinson Crusoe¨ , ¨Death in the garden¨ and many others . His mostly little-known Mexican films , rough-hewn , low-budget melodramas for the most part , are always thought-provoking and interesting ; being ordinary screenwriter Julio Alejandro and Luis Alcoriza . He continued working there until re-establishing himself in Europe in the 1960s as one of the great directors . And finally his French-Spanish period in collaboration with producer Serge Silberman and writer Jean-Claude Carrière with notorious as well as polemic films such as ¨Viridiana¨ was prohibited on the grounds of blasphemy , ¨Tristana¨ , ¨The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" , of course , ¨ ¨Belle Du Jour¨ , with all the kinky French sex and his last picture , "That Obscure Object of Desire" .

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    • Trivia
      During filming, actor Pedro Armendáriz strenuously refused to wear short-sleeved shirts, claiming they were made for pedophiles.
    • Quotes

      Pedro - El Bruto: You have such ways with me. It's true.

      Paloma: Come and look. Here are your clothes, clean and mended. Fix yourself up a little. You always look so sloppy and your hair is always messy. And you show off with an open shirt.

      Pedro - El Bruto: That's not true. I lost a button.

      Paloma: I'll fix it. It's incredible. Such manliness and yet you're such a baby. You don't seem to be a real man. When Don Andrés scolds you,u you look for a back to hide behind. I could did laughing.

      Pedro - El Bruto: Don't say that, ma'am. I love and respect him because he has known me since I was a baby. My mother was Don Pepe's maid. The old man. He was always good to us. He sent me to school, and would hit me if I did something wrong. But when he was in a good mood he gave me candy and allowed to listen to his clock. Somebody once said he was my father. I had a fight over it with some other kids. If he was my father... I'm sure he'd tell me. Don't you think?

      Paloma: [El Bruto forces himself upon Paloma] Leave me alone. Let me go.

      Pedro - El Bruto: I'll teach you to stop playing with me.

      Paloma: You want me to call Andrés? You bastard! What did you think? That I'd allow you to touch me with your dirty hands?

      Pedro - El Bruto: Forgive me. I thought that...

      Paloma: What, idiot?

      Pedro - El Bruto: That you liked me.

      Paloma: But you forget something very important. That I have to be willing also.

    • Connections
      Referenced in The Devil in the Detail: Abraham Castillo Flores on Fernando de Fuentes and the Phantom of the Monastery (2022)

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    • Release date
      • August 14, 1953 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Mexico
    • Language
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • The Brute
    • Filming locations
      • Estudios Churubusco - C. Atletas 2, Country Club Churubusco, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Internacional Cinematográfica
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 21m(81 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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