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 energy. Told in three separate chapters--OCTAVIO AND SUSANA, DANIEL AND VALERIA, and EL CHIVO AND MARU--the film deals with 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, Iniarritu's invigorating, Oscar-nominated film gets an added jolt of adrenaline from its throbbing soundtrack.
Theatrical Release: March 30, 2001 (NY)
April 13, 2001 (National)
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - Spanish
Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Dolby Digital Stereo - French
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary
Music Video
Behind-the-Scenes
Trailers
Stars
Gael Garcia Bernal: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Emilio Echevarria: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Goya Toledo: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Alvaro Guerrero: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Vanessa Bauche: Actress, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Jorge Salinas: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Marco Perez: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Rodrigo Murray: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Humberto Busto: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Gerardo Campbell: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Rosa Maria Bianchi: Actress, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Dunia Saldivar: Actor, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu: Mexican Director, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Screenwriter
Guillermo Arriaga Jordan: Screenwriter; AMORES PERROS (2000)
Composer
Gustavo Santaolaya: Film Composer, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Director of Photography
Rodrigo Prieto: Director of Photography, AMORES PERROS (2001)
Executive Producer
Francisco Gonzalez Compean: Executive Film Producer, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Executive Producer
Martha Sosa: Executive Film Producer, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Production Designer
Brigitte Broch: Production Designer, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Costume Designer
Gabriela Diaque: Costume Designer, AMORES PERROS (2000)
Review 1:
"...Charged with macabre, original and dramatically riveting moments..."
Source: Movieline's Hollywood Life
p.31 04/01/2001
Review 2:
"...Iñárritu's deft eye crafts scenes of realism, depth, and empathy, all of them seething with raw emotional power..."
Source: Film Comment
p.72 03/01/2001
Review 3:
"...This film is satisfying....AMORES feels like the first classic of the new decade, with sequences that will probably make their way into history..."
Source: New York Times
p.E12 03/30/2001
Review 4:
"...A grabber....Iñárritu keeps us involved..."
Source: USA Today
p.E4 03/30/2001
Review 5:
"...Fierce, loving, and electric, this movie's got bite as well as bark..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.90 04/06/2001
Review 6:
"...Like all the best movies, you leave AMORES PERROS seeing the world with new eyes..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.145-6 04/12/2001
Review 7:
"...AMORES PERROS is urban hip-hop film-making from Mexico and it's definitely fly..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.39-40 04/01/2001
Review 8:
"AMORES PERROS is in every way a major work....It is fully realized in all ways, ablaze with a raft of vital portrayals and rich in meaning and implication..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.2 04/13/2001
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