Amores Perros
 
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu Length
2hrs 33mins
    Certificate
18
Stars Emilio Echevarría Year
2000
  Gael García Bernal Country
Mexico
  Goya Toledo Language
Spanish
  Álvaro Guerrero AKA
Love's a Bitch
       
Outline

The most highly acclaimed film of the year opens with a reassurance that no animals were harmed in its making, but be warned: Amores Perros is slang for 'tough love', and this is an unapologetically tough triptych of overlapping tales, each with the common theme of perros - dogs. The sprawl of Mexico City provides the backdrop for this ground-breaking commentary on 21st century civilisation.

Academy Awards 2001: Nominated Best Foreign Language Film
Cannes: Winner Canal+ Award
Edinburgh Film Festival: Winner New Director's Award
Reviews

"Most films today simply take up space behind the eyes. Yet every once in a while a truly great film will come out of nowhere to restore one's faith in the power and resonance of the cinema. Amores Perros, a truly great film, is a drug that makes you dream. " - Alexander Walker, Evening Standard

"This is first-rate filmmaking, horrific and tender, raw and lyrical" - Kim Newman, Empire

"This stands alone. Go. Just go." - Peter Preston, The Observer.

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Screening Notes

Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) is a bold, intensely emotional and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, Amores Perros explores the lives of desperate characters who are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog called Cofi....

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