 Biutiful
Starring: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Eduard Fernández, Guillermo Estrella
Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenplay by: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo, Nicolás Giacobone
Release: December 29th, 2010
MPAA Rating: R for disturbing images, language, some sexual content, nudity and drug use.
Studio: Roadside Attractions
 Domestic: $4,536,000 (26.0%)
Foreign: $12,912,010 (74.0%)
Total: $17,448,010 (Worldwide)
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 This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
Biutiful is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins.
As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life's corridors, whether bright, bad - or biutiful.
After having globe-trotted with Babel, I thought I had explored enough multiple lines, fractured structures and crossing narratives. Each of the films I have made has been shot in a different language, in a different country. At the end of Babel, I was so exhausted I made it a point that my next film would be about just one character, with one point of view, in one single city, with a straight narrative line and in my own native language. Using a musical analogy, if Babel was an opera, Biutiful is a requiem... and here I am. Biutiful is all that I haven’t done: a linear story whose characters shape the narrative in an unexplored genre for me: the tragedy.
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