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Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes (S)

Original title: Biutiful
Year: 2010
Running time: 145 min.
Country: Mexico
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenwriter: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo II, Nicolás Giacobone. Story: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla
Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto
Cast: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Diaryatou Daff, Eduard Fernández, Ana Wagener, Guillermo Estrella, Rubén Ochandiano, Félix Cubero, Martina García, Manolo Solo, Karra Elejalde
Producer: Co-production Mexico-Spain;
Menage Atroz, Mod Producciones, Ikiru Films, Focus Features. Producer: Guillermo del Toro, Sandra Hermida
Genre: Drama | Social Drama. Immigration. Disease/illness
Synopsis: Biutiful is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins. As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life’s corridors, whether bright, bad – or biutiful.

Rankings Position

#80 Best Mexican Movies of all time

Awards: 2010: Academy Awards: 2 Nominations: Best Actor (Bardem) and Best Foreign Language

2010: Cannes Film Festival: Best Actor (Javier Bardem) (ex-aequo)

2010: Golden Globes: 1 Nomination: Best Foreign Language Film

2010: 2 Nominations for BAFTA Awards: Best Actor (Bardem) and Foreign Language Film

2010: Nominated for Critics' Choice Awards: Best Foreign Language Film

2010: Satellite Awards: 3 Nominations including Best Foreign Language Film

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2010: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Lenguage Film

2010: Ariel Awards: Best Cinematography. 7 Nominations

2010: 1 Goya Award: Best Actor (Javier Bardem). 8 Nominations

2011: Forqué Awards: Nominated for Best Actor (Javier Bardem)

Critics' reviews

"An impressionistic, poignant portrait of a man (...) it's a gorgeous, melancholy tone poem about love, fatherhood and guilt. (...) Bardem delivers a knockout performance"

Kirk Honeycutt: The Hollywood Reporter
"Inarritu follows Uxbal's last days with great intimacy (...) What drew me into the film and engaged my sympathy was the presence of Bardem himself. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"It would be impossible to list the Oscar-worthy performances of 2010 without highlighting Javier Bardem in Biutiful (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"What Iñárritu gives us is not a beautiful world or an amazing world. It is simply the world, and therefore, by definition, beautiful and amazing - and painful, awful and mysterious"

Mick LaSalle: SFGATE
"The movie's mood might well have proved unendurable were it not for the proud and sympathetic presence of Bardem"

Anthony Lane: The New Yorker
"Iñárritu has made a modern classical tragedy and, in Javier Bardem, he has found his first authentic hero; a character caught up in an intricate web of events he cannot extricate himself from. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"

Andrew Male: Empire

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37 My Top 10 Movies from 2010 (107)

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