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 review by neilix on Amores Perros (Love's A Bitch) (Subtitled)
February 16th, 2004


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

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Story Good 
Characters / Performances Outstanding 
Special Effects Outstanding 
How does it compare to similar films? Not applicable 

Advantages: Fabulous cinematography
Disadvantages: not for the faint of hearted

Recommend to potential buyers: no 

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Amores Perros as I translate it means
For the Love of Dogs

This is a misleading title

I would simply like to advise viewers in this opinion...

In a raw movie, this film portrays a group of gangs who make money out of dog fights - training wild street-dogs to fight rivals to the death.

The most disturbing part to this film for me was not seeing the well-known message:

"No dogs were hurt or harmed in the making of this movie."

If you want to watch a gruelling and explicit movie about down-and-outs in Latin America training dogs for fights plus a side-story about romantic liaisons between cousins, then this is entertaining.

Having said this, despite the artistic approach to this movie...it made me quite queezy and disturbed.

The only downside for those who don't know Spanish is that you tend to miss a lot by reading the subtitles.

I would only recommend this movie on cinematography. 

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