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Amores Perros
from Lions Gate
starring Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche
directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Don't watch if you need a good night's sleep!
  This is an incredibly dark and disturbing film, but also excellent. What I loved about it is that it doesn't present human emotions in neat little packages, and yet it also is not one of those annoying films where characters do inexplicable things and you have no clue as to their inner lives. This film dishes out human emotions and behavior in big, steamy, platters of complexity and with skill and subtlety. The theme of the dog fighting will of course be extremely disturbing, especially for sensitive animal... more info

• Amores Perros: The Not So Pretty Side of Love
  
  When it comes to movies (or sometimes even real life for that matter) many of us prefer to think of love in comic terms that make us laugh at the feel-good goofiness of a new romance. Or we may enjoy thinking of it as something heroic that enters our lives and rescues us from social obscurity or emotional banality. In AMORES PERROS, which translates into the English title "Love Is a Bitch," director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga Jordan explore with bold confidence and... more info

• Preceded "Crash"
  This film preceded "Crash". If you enjoyed Crash, you will enjoy Amores Perros. And my money says you will probably like it more than Crash. You must take note of all the warnings of very realistic dog fighting and brutality, but trying to keep it in the context of the movie helps.
  Also enjoy Gael Garcia Bernal before he became a star (before "Mama.." and "Motorcycle Diaries")

• Disturbing, painful, depressing. . .
  The dogs make out best in this movie; they just kill each other. The humans, meantime, maim, then destroy, each other.
  Apart from the upset (revulsion?) I can not but feel; I don't quite know how to react to this film. Clearly there is artistic talent here; there are story lines here (well, more accurately, riffs on the hopeless despair of human relationships); there is highly professional filmmaking here. But for what end? There is just one location in this movie: Hell; there is just one color in... more info

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