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Amores Perros
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MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, and Jorge Salinas
A bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. (Lion Gate Films)
| GENRE(S): | Suspense/Thriller |
| WRITTEN BY: | Guillermo Arriaga |
| DIRECTED BY: | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 25, 2001 Video: September 25, 2001 Theatrical: March 30, 2001 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 153 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | Mexico |
| LANGUAGE(S): | Spanish (with English subtitles) |
The title translates as "Love's a Bitch." It received a 2001 Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and picked up awards at numerous film festivals in 2000 (including the Cannes Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and Chicago International Film Festival).
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The average user rating for this movie is 9.4 (out of 10) based on 36 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Redlight gave it an8:
Although I still feel this movie is great, it's a movie best appreciated when you're watching it for the very first time. On repeated viewings, although it is still great, it just isn't as rewarding. Still, great performances from the cast and brutally realistic.
Matt A. gave it a10:
Easily the best film of 2001, and, as some critics have indicated, one of the finest films of all time. The performances, writing, direction, and choice of music are all flawless. It was sad to see this same filmmaker try to create a similar masterpiece with 21 Grams, and mostly fail. If you didn't like that film, still give this one a chance. It truly is amazing.
J P W gave it a10:
A great movie that catches your attention for all the two-and-a-half hours that it's long. It captures the three sad stories in such a beautiful, melancholic, aesthetic way For me, all the blood and violence is part of that aestheticness. The movie seems to breathe the town, the atmosphere is conveyed great with, the people, upper class and lower. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
Nikola L. gave it a10:
Writer speaks from essantial to embrace absurd. Never saw movie that perfect.
It Is Gilbert Mulroneycakes gave it a 10:
Avert your eyes or press fast-forward during all the dog-fighting bits, or indeed the bits which merely show dogs bleeding copiously. This is Not Nice. But it's a masterpiece - I know it's as glib as all-get-out, but it really is the Mexican Pulp Fiction - partly because it's a similar type of film (the criss-cross structure, the occasional violence, the amoral characters, the earthy, fruity language etc) but also because it's in the same class - which is a good trick if you can do it - and because it's also a startlingly original early work (in this case, debut, in fact - which, is incredible to look at it) by a filmmaker who knows exactly what he wants to do, what he wants to show and what he wants to make and f**k anyone else. Credit where it's due though; unlike QT, Iñárritu didn't write it himself, and Guillermo Arriaga Jórdan deserves credit for keeping all the threads together in a coherent fashion. Not for everyone, mind - for a start its length (two and a half hours, and then some more minutes) will be off-putting for some, for a second the warning below is not a word of a lie - horrible things happen to (presumably pretend) dogs in this film, and you may not be able to stomach it. That said, I'm surprised not to read a single review balling it out for the ihnerently skippable and in no way gratuitous violence yet. Still, those caveats out of the way, Amores Perros is a brutal, mesmerising masterpiece from a filmaker (and screenwriter) who, if there is the remotest amount of justice in this god-forsaken world, will be bigger than curly fries by the end of the decade. Please? Just don't watch it if you have a dog. Or want one. Or know what one looks like. And to avoid fainting, keep repeating, "It's only a movie, it's only a movie." Jolly.
Jeremy gave it a 7:
An good film with some brialliant moments. If Inarritu learned the value of an editor, it might have been more than that.
Santino S. gave it a 9:
For a debut feature, this is a brilliant film. Heavily inspired by "Pulp Fiction,"this is a gritty urban drama about people living on the edge.deserved the oscar for best foreign film.A WARNING THOUGH, DOG LOVERS COULD DIE OF SHOCK WHILE WATCHING THIS ,SO TAKE CARE.
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