21 Grams
United States
2003
124 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
Synopsis
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. –IMDb
Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Born in México City, Mexico, in 1963, Alejandro González Iñárritu started his show-business career in 1984 as a DJ at top-rated Mexican radio station WFM. At the same time he studied filmmaking and theater. From 1988 to 1990 he composed music for six Mexican features, including Garra de tigre (1989). In the 1990s he became one of the youngest producers in Mexican TV: looking for good stories, he read a lot of scripts and one day was introduced to Guillermo Arriaga, a screenwriter, and they planned to make 11 shorts to show the contradictory nature of Mexico City. After three years and 36 drafts, they ended up settling on only three stories and expanding them. That movie, Amores Perros, became a major hit at its release at the Festival de Cannes 2000, where it received the award of the best film by the Semaine de la Critique, and went on to huge worldwide success. It also earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign movie. His second feature, 21 Grams (2003), was also written by Arriaga… read more
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Brandon Isaacson
28Nov11
The more I think about this film, the more I realize it's a masterpiece. I wasn't a big fan of it the first time...now that I've seen it 3 times it blows me away. The fractured narrative conveys this sense of paralysis, that you can't escape certain inevitabilities in life. I think the complex narrative works better here than in Amores Perros & Babel, both rhythmically and intellectually
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Felix Piñeiro
11Sep11
I can't not like Iñárritu. Even when he doesn't meet up to your expectations, he's still blowing half these clowns away.
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