
Roadside Attractions is out with the first trailer for Biutiful, the drama by Amores Perros helmer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The film premiered at Cannes, where Javier Bardem won the Best Actor prize for his portrayal of a father facing his own mortality. The film opens December 29 in the U.S.
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This trailer looks like such a winner. Bardem, as usual, is incandescent and evocative on the Big Screen. I am really interested in how the whole story plays out in this movie.
Inarritu, though, is such a deft storyteller that I feel the viewers are in good hands. He manages to evoke powerful human stories without drifting toward the maudlin. His work is, in a word, great. I suspect this will hit a high bar, and it is refreshing because this story line doesn’t fall into the typical Hollywood formula mush-mash.
Word around the campfire is that this movie screened at some big festival in Europe and got a ten-minute standing ovation at the end. Not bad.
This just might be your Oscar foreign movie winner, folks.
A nice trailer and a good movie to watch to, a love of a father for his children will never compare. We will do everything to protect and make sure that they are safe and love them no matter what. I would love to see the whole story of this film.
Agreed. A very powerful storyline. A modern, tilted, more tragic version of “Death of a Salesman”
Listen up! This is one of the most pretentious films EVER MADE. Bardem is, in fact, great, but the filmmaking is beyond condescending. WTF does Innaritu know about any of this. Looky-loo British miserablism brought to Barcelona. Whatevs.
Meanwhile, it’s way too confronting for the Academy – shocking that Mexico chose this completely non-Mexican film. It’s kind of embarrassingly mercenary.