Biutiful
Δραματική 2010 | Έγχρ. | Διάρκεια: 147'
Ισπανομεξικάνικη ταινία, σκηνοθεσία Αλεχάντρο Γκονζάλες Ιναρίτου με τους: Χαβιέρ Μπαρδέμ, Μαρισέλ Αλβαρέζ, Χάνα Μπουσαϊμπ
Ο Ουξμπάλ, ένας μικροαπατεώνας,
χωρισμένος πατέρας δύο μικρών παιδιών που μεγαλώνει ο ίδιος, μαθαίνει
πως έχει μπροστά του μόνο λίγους μήνες ζωής. Έτσι, έστω και την
τελευταία στιγμή, αποφασίζει να βάλει σε τάξη τη χαοτική ζωή του.
Biutiful
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| Directed by | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Produced by | Alejandro González Iñárritu Jon Kilik Fernando Bovaira Ann Ruark Sandra Hermida Associate: Alfonso Cuarón Guillermo del Toro |
| Written by | Alejandro González Iñárritu Armando Bo Nicolás Giacobone |
| Starring | Javier Bardem Maricel Álvarez Hanaa Bouchaib Guillermo Estrella Diaryatou Daff Cheng Tai Shen Nasser Saleh |
| Music by | Gustavo Santaolalla |
| Cinematography | Rodrigo Prieto |
| Edited by | Stephen Mirrione |
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Televisió de Catalunya Televisión Española Cha Cha Cha Films Focus Features International |
| Distributed by | LD Entertainment Roadside Attractions (US) |
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| Running time | 147 minutes[1] |
| Country | Mexico Spain |
| Language | Spanish Chinese Wolof |
| Box office | $25,147,786[2] |
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards in 2011: Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor for Javier Bardem. Bardem's nomination makes his performance the first entirely Spanish-language performance to be nominated for that award. Bardem also received the Best Actor Award at Cannes for his work on the film.
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Plot
Uxbal lives in a shabby apartment in Barcelona with his two young children, Ana and Mateo. He is separated from their mother Marambra, a woman suffering from alcoholism and bipolar disorder. Having grown up an orphan, Uxbal has no family other than his brother Tito, who works in the construction business. Uxbal earns a living by procuring work for illegal immigrants and managing a group of Chinese women producing forged designer goods along with the African street vendors who are selling them. He is able to talk to the dead and is sometimes paid to pass on messages from the recently deceased at wakes and funerals. When he is diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer leaving him with only a few months to live, his world progressively falls apart.Uxbal initially begins chemotherapy, but he later ends the treatment at the advice of his friend and traditional healer Bea. She also gives him two black stones which she asks him to give his children before he dies. The group of Africans are brutally arrested by the police despite Uxbal's regular bribes because of their involvement with drugs. When his friend Ekweme faces deportation to Senegal, Uxbal offers Ekweme's wife Ige and their baby son a room in his apartment. Meanwhile, an attempt at reconciliation with Marambra fails when Uxbal realizes she cannot be trusted to raise his children. Tito brokers a deal to put the Chinese to work at a construction site. However, almost all of them die while asleep in the basement of their sweatshop due to malfunctioning gas heaters installed by Uxbal. An attempt by a human trafficker to dump the bodies into the sea fails when they are washed up on the shore shortly after.
As Uxbal's health continues to deteriorate, he is plagued with guilt that he is responsible for the death of the immigrants. As his death draws nearer, he realizes that there will be nobody to take care of Ana and Mateo once he is gone. He entrusts the remainder of his savings to Ige, asking her to stay with the children after his death. She accepts his request but later decides to use the money to pay for her return to Africa. She changes her mind at the last minute, however, and returns to the apartment. Knowing that Ige will take care of his children, Uxbal lies down next to Ana and dies after having passed on to her a diamond ring which his father had once given to his mother. He is then reunited in a snowy winter landscape with his father, who had died before Uxbal's birth shortly after having fled Spain for Mexico during the Franco regime.
Cast
- Javier Bardem as Uxbal
- Maricel Álvarez as Marambra
- Hanaa Bouchaib as Ana
- Guillermo Estrella as Mateo
- Diaryatou Daff as Ige
- Taishen Cheng as Hai
- Nasser Saleh as Muchacho
Production
Biutiful took three and half years to make, since the beginning of the writing process. It was shot between October 2008 and February 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. It was a Mexican and Spanish co-production. The film was shot in chronological order by scenes.Reception
Critical reception
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports 64% of critics featured on the site gave a positive review of the film at an average rating of 6.4/10 based on 131 reviews. Kirk Honeycutt of the Hollywood Reporter calls the film, "a gorgeous melancholy tone poem about love, fatherhood and guilt", and describes Bardem’s performance as "...a knockout. "[3] Betsy Sharkey of the LA Times wrote, "Bardem gives a performance of staggering depth, unquestionably one of the year’s best. " [4] A. O. Scott from the New York Times writes, " Mr. Iñárritu creates a feeling of raw, sprawling intimacy…every shot is full of emotional and social detail. " [5] Roger Ebert wrote "What drew me into the film and engaged my sympathy was the presence of Bardem...a vastly human actor. " [6] Steve Pond of The Wrap writes Bardem’s performance is a "towering achievement". The film has been overwhelmingly well received in many countries including France and the UK. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian writes, "The fluency and confidence of Inarritu's cinematic language are really spectacular. It may not convert, or convince, but it is certainly arresting: not magic realism exactly, but rather the director's very own brand of magic naturalism".At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has so far received an average score of 58 .[7] critical praise was not universal, however. Some reviews criticized the story as being too bleak; Justin Chang of Variety writes Iñárritu is "...stuck in a grim rut. " [8]
Filmmakers Sean Penn, Werner Herzog and Michael Mann have been very outspoken in their acclaim for the film. Herzog likened it to a "poem" and Penn compared Bardem’s performance to that of Marlon Brando’s in Last Tango in Paris. Julia Roberts has also been very supportive.
Box office
Biutiful grossed $5,101,237 in the domestic box office and $20,046,549 overseas for a worldwide total of $25,147,786.[2]Awards
On 25 January 2011, the film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards while Javier Bardem received a nomination for Best Actor.[13] The film is also nominated for the 64th British Academy Film Awards for Best Film not in the English Language, while Javier Bardem was nominated for Best Actor. Biutiful received eight nominations for the 25th Goya Awards; Best Actor for Javier Bardem, Best Supporting Actor for Eduard Fernández, Best Supporting Actress for Ana Wagener, Best Original Screenplay for Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bó and Nicolás Giacobone, Best Cinematography for Rodrigo Prieto, Best Editing for Stephen Mirrione, Best Art Direction for Brigitte Broch and Best Original Score for Gustavo Santaolalla.
The film was also nominated at the 16th Critics' Choice Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the 68th Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Film, but lost to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and In a Better World, respectively.
| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
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| Academy Awards[13] | 27 February 2011 | Best Actor | Javier Bardem | Nominated |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Mexico | Nominated | ||
| British Academy Film Awards[14] | 13 February 2011 | Best Leading Actor | Javier Bardem | Nominated |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |||
| Goya Awards | Best Actor | Javier Bardem | Won | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Eduard Fernández | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actress | Ana Wagener | Nominated | ||
| Best Original Screenplay | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bó and Nicolás Giacobone | Nominated | ||
| Best Cinematography | Rodrigo Prieto | Nominated | ||
| Best Editing | Stephen Mirrione | Nominated | ||
| Best Art Direction | Brigitte Broch | Nominated | ||
| Best Original Score | Gustavo Santaolalla | Nominated | ||
| Denver Film Critics Society | 28 January 2011 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |
| Golden Globe Awards[15] | 16 January 2011 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |
| Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards[16] | 28 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | |
| Utah Film Critics Association Awards | 23 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards[17] | 20 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |
| St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actor | Javier Bardem | Nominated | |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone | Nominated | ||
| Satellite Awards[18] | 19 December 2010 | Best Actor | Javier Bardem | Nominated |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone | Nominated | ||
| Houston Film Critics Society Awards | 18 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |
| Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards[11] | 17 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | |
| Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards[19] | 16 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |
| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards[20] | 14 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |
| Critics' Choice Award | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | ||
| Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards | 13 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |
| Indiana Film Critics Association | 12 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | |
| Washington D. C. Area Film Critics Association Awards[21] | 6 December 2010 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | |
| Cannes Film Festival | 23 May 2010 | Best Actor | Javier Bardem | Won |
| Palme d'Or | Nominated |
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