In all of his previous films, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu chronicled the mostly tragic lives of many different characters. However, with his 2010 drama,
Biutiful, the internationally renowned Mexican filmmaker focuses on a single protagonist who faces just as many tragic circumstances as all the characters in Inarritu’s Oscar-nominated
Babel -- combined.
How is Uxbal’s (Javier Bardem) life going wrong? Let me count the ways. One: he’s a single father of two children who scrapes out a living through a number of illegal activities -- he oversees a small drug operation and he helps manage a sweatshop run by two Asian gangsters. Two: his ...
Released:
2010
Rated:
R
Length:
148 mins