Amores Perros
by Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu
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Actor: ?lvaro Guerrero, Emilio Echevarr?a, Gael Garc?a Bernal, Goya Toledo, Vanessa BaucheDirector: Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 153 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Amores Perros
Movie Review: Disturbing, painful, depressing. . .
Summary: 3 Stars
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 production: black.
The director perhaps says it best: "This movie is a two-hour scream."
Prepare for the pain; prepare for the bloody, cruel, human dogfights.
Summary of Amores Perros
Three lives become inextricably linked in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gun-shot Rotweiler. Discover why Amores Perros is the best reviewed film of the year.System Requirements: Running Time 153 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 658149786424 Manufacturer No: 71479Amores Perros roughly translates to "Love's a bitch," and it's an apt summation of this remarkable film's exploration of passion, loss, and the fragility of our lives. In telling three stories connected by one traumatic incident, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu uses an intricate screenplay by novelist Guillermo Arriaga to make three movies in close orbit, expressing the notion that we are defined by what we lose--from our loves to our family, our innocence, or even our lives. These interwoven tales--about a young man in love with his brother's pregnant wife, a perfume spokeswoman and her married lover, and a scruffy vagrant who sidelines as a paid killer--are united by a devastating car crash that provides the film's narrative nexus, and by the many dogs that the characters own or care for. There is graphic violence, prompting a disclaimer that controversial dog-fight scenes were harmless and carefully supervised, but what emerges from Amores Perros is a uniquely conceptual portrait of people whom we come to know through their relationship with dogs. The film is simultaneously bleak, cynical, insightful, and compassionate, with layers of meaning that are sure to reward multiple viewings. --Jeff Shannon
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