Susana is tempted because Ramiro does not seem to care much about their baby. In fact, Octavio likes Susana so much that eventually he asks her to run away with him.
Octavio is a kind and sensitive guy who likes Susana a lot. The first three characters are Octavio (Gael García Bernal, The Motorcycle Diaries, Bad Education), his brother Ramiro (Marco Perez, La sombra del sahuaro), and his wife Susana (Vanessa Bauche, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada). It is divided into multiple episodes, each focusing on a group of different characters, of which only one is somewhat easy to like. The film won the Critics Week Grand Prize and Young Critics Award for Best Feature at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.Īmores Perros is a long, demanding utmost concentration film. The latest addition to Optimum Home Entertainment's impressive catalog is Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Amores Perros a.k.a. We also saw new additions to the terrific Studio Canal Collection, amongst them Joseph Losey's The Go-Between, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le cercle rouge, Mike Nichols' The Graduate, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen. They also released David Lynch's Inland Empire, Johnnie To's Vengeance, Bong Joon-ho's Mother, Atom Egoyan's Chloe, Julio Medem's Room in Rome, and a wonderful restored version of Lionel Jeffries' classic The Railway Children. The British distributors were the first to produce an English-friendly release of Jacques Audiard's Un prophete, as well as Olivier Assayas' highly acclaimed Carlos, which does not even appear on Blu-ray in its native France. Give Optimum Home Entertainment a lot of credit for what they have done this year. In Spanish, with optional English subtitles for the main feature. The supplemental features on the disc include deleted scenes with audio commentary by director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu a standard behind the scenes featurette the film's original theatrical trailer and three music videos. "Love's a Bitch" (2000) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Optimum Home Entertainment. Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Amores Perros" a.k.a. In some ways it is still his most vital and stylish film, which marked the arrival of a major cinematic talent.Reviewed by Dr. When it was first released, some pointed out the narrative similarities to Pulp Fiction (1994), but Innaritu stamps the material with his own style and energy, creating a searing examination of life at the margins of a city. The graphic dog fights disturbed some viewers, who suspected they were done for real, but a short featurette explains how they achieved these sequences without harming any animals. The dark exploration of human and animal behaviour is a riveting watch, with fine performances from the ensemble cast – even the dogs are great. The final segment features El Chivo (Emilio Echeverria), an older homeless man trying to contact his daughter, whom he hasn’t seen in years.Ī startling feature debut for Inarritu, it deservedly reaped a lot of critical aacclaim on its release in 2000 and ended up with an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film. The next show Daniel (Álvaro Guerrero), a wealthy publisher, move in with his housebound younger lover Valeria (Goya Toledo), who sees her pet dog get lost under the floorboards of their apartment. The first section sees Octavio (Gael García Bernal) try to arrange a dog fight so he can run away with his girlfriend Susana (Vanessa Bauche). Three stories converge through a car crash in this brilliantly executed drama set in Mexico City.Īmores Perros (2000) was the debut feature of director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, set the template for their subsequent collaborations – 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006) – by exploring intense human behaviour through a non-linear narrative.
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