However the second story knocked the wind out of it for a moment, and seemed to lack the emotion of the first.
It was violent, exciting and yet had a human element to it as well. >From the opening car chase that results in the crash that the film spirals outwards from like debris, through for most of the first hour, I was hooked the pace was great and the story gripping.
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With it's appearance on TV (BBC4 showing itself to really be a 'place to think' and a wonderful channel to have) I took the opportunity to watch it, expecting a film that would match the good things I had heard about it. After seeing 21 Grams I knew that I had to get round to seeing this film.
These three lives come together in a car crash that acts as a catalyst in changing their lives. Finally an ex-convict and guerrilla mourns the wife he left decades ago and longs to meet the daughter who thinks he is dead but is also contracted to kill a businessman. A beautiful young model signs a lucrative contract with a perfume company and moves into her new flat with her lover only for her tragedy to strike and her dog to go missing. Nick RiganasĪ young man gets into the world of illegal dog fighting in order to get enough money together to be able to run away with his brother's wife, but in the meantime he starts tension with another dog owner. In the end, even though all the weary characters, men and beasts, wish for a bright future, in this life-changing journey in the pursuit of love, sometimes infidelity, sin and death can get in the way. Lastly, Chivo, an ex-guerrilla vagabond, after abandoning his little daughter, unable to make up for lost time, he channels his love to the city's strays and a mortally wounded Rottweiler.
And then unexpectedly, Valeria, a stunning woman and famous supermodel, will cross paths with Octavio, while in the meantime, her pampered little dog Richie manages to vanish into thin air in the confined space of her apartment. Octavio, a rebellious adolescent who is secretly in love with his sister-in-law, dreams of escaping his miserable life, and for this reason, he enters reluctantly the obscure world of dog fighting with his lethal dog Cofi. AMORES PERROS is urban hip-hop film-making from Mexico and it's definitely fly.On the brink of the new Millennium in the bustling City of Mexico, one horrible car accident intertwines inextricably the lives of three perfect strangers. This film is satisfying.AMORES feels like the first classic of the new decade, with sequences that will probably make their way into history., Sight and Sound. A grabber.Inarritu keeps us involved., New York Times. Charged with macabre, original and dramatically riveting moments., Los Angeles Times - AMORES PERROS is in every way a major work.It is fully realized in all ways, ablaze with a raft of vital portrayals and rich in meaning and implication., USA Today. Thanks to Wang's tidy, knowing direction, we are subject to some fresh, unsettling insights., Movieline. Like all the best movies, you leave AMORES PERROS seeing the world with new eyes., Premiere. Fierce, loving, and electric, this movie's got bite as well as bark., Rolling Stone. Inarritu's deft eye crafts scenes of realism, depth, and empathy, all of them seething with raw emotional power., Entertainment Weekly. Shot with hand held immediacy on grainy film stock by Rodrigo Prieto, Iniarritu's invigorating, Oscar-nominated film gets an added jolt of adrenaline from its throbbing soundtrack.įilm Comment. Saddened that he has lost all contact with his daughter, he takes one final stand when an intended act of kindness turns brutally tragic. Finally, El Chivo (Emilio Echevarria) is an ex-revolutionary who has become a paid assassin. Meanwhile, Daniel (Alvaro Guerrero) has left his wife and daughters for the gorgeous model Valeria (Goya Toledo), but when she is hurt badly in a car accident, the strain on their relationship is stretched to its limits. He begins entering his dog in illegal dogfights in order to save up enough money to run away with her, but eventually learns a powerful lesson when she fails to keep her word. Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal) has fallen in love with his brother's wife, Susana (Vanessa Bauche). Told in three separate chapters-OCTAVIO AND SUSANA, DANIEL AND VALERIA, and EL CHIVO AND MARU-the film concerns the issue of love in the lives of several individuals residing in modern day Mexico City. Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy.
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