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Mean Streets: Take a Closer Look at Alejandro González Iñárritu's 'Biutiful'
Alejandro González Iñárritu makes up for the lack of challenging cinematic adventures by looking at the microcosm of Barcelona's “dark side” through a magnifying glass in his latest film Biutiful. What he finds might shock you. PopMatters gets some insight into one of the year's most underrated films from director Iñárritu and star Javier Bardem.
05 Jan 2011
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'Alejandro González Iñárritu' Provides an Excellent Analyses of the Filmmaker's Style
Film scholars Celestino Deleyto and María del Mar Azcona take a close, compelling look at Amores perros, 21 Grams and Babel.
04 Jan 2011
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Babel: Borders Within
As a director, Inarritu is kinetic, adventurous and deeply motivated by spontaneity of feeling. The new edition of Babel is worth getting ahold of for the extra feature documentary alone.
Rebecca Chang
30 Sep 2007
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Babel: Lest We Be United
The great, overarching question one asks during a film such as this is: where is the light? At 143 minutes, this much sadness and tragedy becomes somewhat numbing.
Stuart Henderson
30 Sep 2007
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Babel (2006)
With a movie that encompasses international relations, broken families, personal epiphanies, romantic longings, painful secrets, and our constant aching need for human connection, Iñárritu might have bitten off more than he could chew.
Jack Patrick Rodgers
22 Feb 2007
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The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006
For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.
10 Jan 2007
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Babel (2006)
Associated by instances of violence, the stories in Babel all concern children caught up in circumstances beyond their easy comprehension, while adults struggle to maintain some semblance of illusory order.
26 Oct 2006
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