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Biutiful

2010

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Diaryatou Daff, Eduard Fernández ...

6.5

21,865

Drama 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"An impressionistic, poignant portrait of a man (...) it's a gorgeous, melancholy tone poem about love, fatherhood and guilt. (...) Bardem delivers a knockout performance"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"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)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It would be impossible to list the Oscar-worthy performances of 2010 without highlighting Javier Bardem in Biutiful (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"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"	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Male Empire	"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)"	POS
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"The movie's mood might well have proved unendurable were it not for the proud and sympathetic presence of Bardem"	POS

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