Biutiful

R16
2010
|
147 mins
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Spanish drama from director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, 21 Grams) and starring the brilliant Javier Bardem (No Country For Old... More

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Biutiful | Ratings & Reviews

"Unwatchable without Javier Bardem’s affecting, devastatingly committed performance, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful – his first film minus regular writing partner Guillermo Arriaga – plunges the viewer into a shapeless, sprawling character study that functions as nothing less than a punishing reminder of how rotten the universe can be. Yet even with a powerhouse like Bardem holding fort, this misery-laden feel-bad saga struggles to transcend its unsubtly despairing view of humanity, and might have you gasping for air long before its funereally paced 148 minutes are up."

FlicksFlicks

"Excesses aside, Iñárritu’s fresh focus and tactile direction pack a palpable punch here. Bardem hefts much of the weight with bare-bones assurance, redeeming his rep after Eat Pray Love."

Total FilmTotal Film

"Mr. Bardem, best known to American audiences for his chillingly persuasive embodiment of evil in "No Country for Old Men," combines muscular, charismatic physicality with an almost delicate sensitivity, and this blend of the rough and the tender gives Biutiful a measure of emotional credibility that it may not entirely deserve."

The New York TimesThe New York Times

"Surely few actors have faces that project sorrow more completely than Bardem."

Roger EbertRoger Ebert

"Sometimes it seems as if Iñárritu is literally carving out his actor's heart, so tangible does Bardem make Uxbal's fears. Iñárritu has so much that he wants to say - too much, in fact, and the film's central weakness - that he has created an emotional tsunami for both the actors and the audience."

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times

"Biutiful has a strong, linear narrative drive. Nevertheless, and most of all, it's a gorgeous, melancholy tone poem about love, fatherhood and guilt."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

"Iñárritu has made a modern classical tragedy and, in Javier Bardem, he has found his first authentic hero; a character caught up in an intricate web of events he cannot extricate himself from."

Empire MagazineEmpire Magazine

"In spite of fine work from Bardem and Álvarez, Biutiful is an irritating, oppressive 150-minute dirge, not the step forward Iñárritu's dissolved partnership with Arriaga seemed to promise."

A.V. ClubA.V. Club

Biutiful | Details

Award winner
Best Actor (Javier Bardem) at Cannes Film Festival 2010.
Rating
R16, contains offensive language, sexual material & other content that may offend
Runtime
147
Genre
Drama
Country of origin
Mexico

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