BABEL is the crowning achievement in the trilogy from the unstoppable creative pairing of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, which also... more
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Babel [2006]
Brilliantly conceived, superbly directed, and beautifully acted, Babel is inarguably one
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of the best films of 2006. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and his co-writer, Guillermo Arriaga (the two also collaborated on Amores Perros and 21 Grams) w...
Babel [2006]
Brilliantly conceived, superbly directed, and beautifully acted, Babel is inarguably one
... more
of the best films of 2006. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and his co-writer, Guillermo Arriaga (the two also collaborated on Amores Perros and 21 Grams) w...
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Advantages: Script, Acting, Music, Picture and Sound. Disadvantages: Limited special features.
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Babel is the compelling multi-cultural drama in which a tragic accident in Morocco sets off a chain off events that will link four groups of people who, divided by vast cultural differences, will discover a shared destiny that ultimately connects them. It focuses on 3 stories that, inevitably in any good film such as Pulp Fiction, interlock. There is no real order to these three stories as they are ongoing throughout ... ...language barrier is explored in Babel isn’t funny, it’s terrifying! It is very difficult to explain without giving important aspects of the film away so I shall try and explain in another context. Imagine a situation in which you are in another country and one of your loved ones needs help hurriedly and you desperately try explain to someone who doesn’t speak your language in another country where your loved one is and that they need assistance. ...
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Advantages: Excellent cast and performances Disadvantages: Nothing major
Babel is multi-award nominated film starring Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt but they are far from the stars in this ensemble piece. The film is in four parts, with each story interlinked. For the most part the connections are obvious but one of the connections is more subtle than the others. Also the stories are told out of sequence with each other. Whilst each story takes roughly the same amount of screen time, not all of them run concurrently, which ... ...to build the tower of Babel up to heaven. Performance wise I just cannot fault this film. You would obviously expect an actor of the calibre of Cate Blanchett to do well, and she was excellent, even though it was such a relatively small role for her. Brad Pitt also impressed me, getting his teeth into the part and making Richard a deeper and more interesting character than he may otherwise have been. Adrianna Barazza and Rinko Kikuchi both deserved ...
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Advantages: A gripping script, good cast and excellent direction Disadvantages: if you don't like subtitles avoid this
...first seen the advert for Babel I have to admit that I really wasn’t sure if it would be my sort of film. The more I thought about it though, the more tempted I was to actually watch it. It seemed like a movie that was going to need an evening set aside to watch it and Thursday night that is exactly what I did. Having finished work and pottering around the flat I lay back on the sofa to see if Babel lived up to all the hype I’d heard about it. Of ... ...Pitt but his role in Babel really surpasses almost everything else I’ve seen him in. He actually suits the more involved, serious roles and after some of the roles I’ve seen him in it still surprises me how well he does this sort of role. Unlike Pitt I’ve never really been a fan of Cate Blanchett and while her performance in this film is quite good I didn’t really take to her character, although she did spend most of the film lying on a floor with ...
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Advantages: Gripping throughout Disadvantages: Noot for everyone's taste, needs time dedicated to it
...every one of them. Babel is also the winner of the oscar for best picture in 2007, and similar in many ways and themes to the 2006 winner, Crash.
The name of the film comes from the biblical story of the Tower of Babel - a tower built so that people could get closer to god. Biblical and religious questions are continuously raised throughout the film. Babel certainly isn't for everybody's taste. There are four stories interweaved between different ... ...a car with him! Babel also put me off ever visiting Morrocco, or if you do you wouldn't want to do anything wrong going by the portrayal of police brutality.
Don't go to see this if you want something to switch off to. There are no big explosions and all the drama comes from real life situations. What I love about Inarrito's films is that he can inadvertently switch from a moment that truly touches your heart, as happens at the first switch between ...
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Advantages: Great cast, excellent cinematography Disadvantages: poor script, poor direction, waste of time.
It is a tedious film and frankly very boring. Alejandro Gonzalez's previous films have been enjoyable, so I was looking forward to this film. But I felt that it was trying too hard to get the message of poor communication accross.
I was also disappointed in the director's choice not to make use of his cast (which was an amazing line up). It felt like glorified cameo's with very little back story and so I was not emotionally attched to any of the ... ...cinematography - fantastic shots of the landscape and the capturing of the Japanese city. But apart from that the story was empty and the characters were just shadows.
I think the director hoped that people viewing this film, would think about the world they live in and the different cultures (and the difficulty to live side by side). But it tries too hard, and fails, it just becomes one of those "arty" flicks that disappoint. ...
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Actor(s): Koji Yakusho, Brad Pitt, Gael Garcia Bernal, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi
Director(s): Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Genre: Drama
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 2006
Running Time: 2 hours 18 minutes
Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, violence, sex references and drug use
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: An epic tale of human alienation, BABEL draws several disparate yet interconnected storylines that converge in surprising and cataclysmic ways. An accident sparks a chain of events that have global repercussions.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Release date: 21/05/2007
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: PHE 9182
Barcode: 5014437918239
Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga Jordan
Composer: Gustavo Santaolalla
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Professional reviews
Review: Babel remains emotionally bruising but compulsive viewing (Empire, 16/04/2007)
A powerful and brilliantly made film (Evening Standard, 08/06/2007)
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DVD Description
BABEL is the crowning achievement in the trilogy from the unstoppable creative pairing of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, which also includes AMORES PERROS and 21 GRAMS. High up in the Moroccan mountains, two young boys--the sons of a local herdsman--are randomly test-firing a rifle their father has entrusted them with. As they take aim at a vehicle in the distance, they are blissfully unaware of the chain of events they will set into motion as one of the brothers pulls the trigger. Moments earlier, Richard and Susan (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett)--a wealthy couple from San Diego--are seen travelling across the desert when their coach is shot at and Susan is badly injured. Distraught and panic-stricken, Richard calls home to inform their Mexican maid Amelia (Adriana Barraza) of the situation and to ask her to look after their two children. However, this couldn’t have come at a worse time for Amelia, who is expected at her son’s wedding in Mexico that same day. Torn between her responsibilities to her employers and her familial obligations, she decides to attend the wedding with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. But disaster strikes when she is stopped at the border control, suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants into America. Meanwhile, the shooting in Morocco has escalated into an international incident, with the media crying terrorism. Half way around the world in Tokyo, another story is unfolding, this time involving the original owner of the rifle (Koji Yakusho) and his rebellious deaf daughter (Rinko Kikuchi). Building upon its predecessors’ method of weaving together disparate storylines, BABEL reaches new heights of ambition with a tale that, in the absence of traditional narrative and protagonist, relies on numerous incredible performances to evoke an affecting relevance by framing contemporary issues in very human struggles and mistakes. The result is an intimate, emotional experience that would approach melodrama were it not rendered so realistically. Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s colour palette masterfully captures the muted tones of the harsh natural landscapes of Morocco and the Mexican border, as well as the fluorescent lights of Tokyo that denote another, equally barren, end of the spectrum. The misunderstandings born of cultural, language, and class barriers are on par with those that occur between family members, depicting a world that, while connected in the least expected of ways, is also faced with a deep-seated crisis that threatens to alienate humanity from itself.