Amores perros

Mexico

2000

154 Min

Color

1.85:1

Spanish

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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DIR Alejandro González Iñárritu

EXEC Francisco González Compeán, Martha Sosa Elizondo, Martha Sosa

PROD Alejandro González Iñárritu

CAST Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Marco Pérez, Rodrigo Murray, Humberto Busto, Adriana Barraza, José Sefami, Gerardo Campbell, Rosa María Bianchi, Dunia Saldívar

ED Luis Carballar, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Fernando Pérez Unda, Alejandro González

SOUND Roland N. Thai, Martín Hernández

Cannes (Semaine de la critique): Critics Week Grand Prize, Edinburgh: New Directors Award, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), New York, AFI FEST (Latin Cinema Series): Audience Award, Rotterdam (Main Programme), São Paulo: Critics Award, International Jury Award - Honorable Mention, Karlovy Vary (Horizons - Awarded Films), Chicago (International Competition): Gold Hugo, Stockholm (Visionary)

Synopsis

A fatal car accident connects three very different stories and worlds into each other. Each story has a different protagonist from a different social strata of Mexico City: a homeless man, a rich house wife, and a young teenage who is dreaming of hitting it big in the dogfights. As these disparate stories unfold, through various recurring themes and plot details it gets revealed that all these people are connected more than it initially appears.

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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følende

7May13

a culmination of all that's "modern society"

Costanza Arena

2Apr13

"A Luciano, perché siamo anche ciò che abbiamo perso"

Khan Samiuzzaman

19Mar13

LOVE this film! very original

Ademption

19Mar13

This one might have been original. But since he's been remaking the same film template lazily again and again (i.e. 3 independent stories tied together by a seemingly innocuous unifying event: Babel, 21 grams), this prototype might look better than it is relative to the others.