Amores Perros (Love's A Bitch) (Subtitled)

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Production Year: 2000 - Drama - Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Original Language: Spanish - Classification: 18 years and over more

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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...
more...energy. 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. Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal) has fallen in love with his brother's wife, Susana (Vanessa Bauche). 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. 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. Finally, El Chivo (Emilio Echevarria) is an ex-revolutionary who has become a paid assassin. Saddened that he has lost all contact with his daughter, he takes one final stand when an intended act of kindness turns brutally tragic. 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.





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a Mexican jewel
A review by peke on Amores Perros (Love's A Bitch) (Subtitled)
December 12th, 2001


Author's product rating:   Amores Perros (Love's A Bitch) (Subtitled) - rated by peke

Did you enjoy it? Loved it 
Story Outstanding 
Characters / Performances Good 
Special Effects Standard 
How does it compare to similar films? Good 

Advantages: you get 3 stories in 1
Disadvantages: you wish you could go deeper

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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Amores perros: dog loves
Amor es perros: love is dogs

It is about dogs, it is about love, but for a Mexican the title really tells them how love is hard, how love is mean, and how love is cruel.

Not having seen a good Mexican movie in a long time Amores perros really amazed me. I never expected such a good film, not only in the story, but also in the filming and in the acting, it makes you proud as a Mexican to see such a good combination.

But on the other side it also shows the reality of a country that is suffering, a city where so many stories take place so close to each other. A country that has many worlds and how each one of them has its own problems that seem as big and as important to its owners.

So yes it is a story about love, about the animal nature of love that lives upon us. Love between father and daughter, love between lovers, love between old and young, love in its essence, as cruel and as wonderful as it can be.
 
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