rating:
(out of
4 stars)Mexico; 2000
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu; produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu; written by Guillermo Arriaga Jordán
Starring Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Avery Brooks, Fairuza Balk, Elliott Gould
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
'Amores Perros' tells three stories that are connected by a car accident.
The first story is about Octavio (Gael García Bernal) and Susana (Vanessa
Bauche). Susana is married to Ramiro (Marco Pérez), who is the brother of
Octavio. Octavio is in love with Susana and wants to take her away with him.
To get the money to do that he lets his dog enter dogfights. He and his
friend are in one of the cars in the crash.
The second story is about Daniel (Álvaro Guerrero) and Valeria (Goya
Toledo). Daniel has left his wife and two children to live with the model
Valeria and start a new life. Valeria drives the other car from the accident
and ends up in a wheelchair. In this story there is also a dog as an
important character. Their dog chases a ball into a hole in the floor,
disappears and doesn't come back. Sometimes they hear the little dog under
the floor.
The last story connects the other two in a way. It is about Chivito (Emilio
Echevarría) and Maru (Lourdes Echevarría). Chivito has never spoken his
daughter Maru; she thinks he is dead. What will happen and how these stories
get together with Chivito I will not reveal.
Sometimes the stories mix and in all of them dogs are as important or may be
even more important than the human beings. In Chivito's story the dogs are
his and he loves them more than anything, accept his daughter he has never
spoken to. May be the stories are a little too long. The movie is long but I
thought it was never really slow or boring.
We really learn to know the characters and when they act the way they do we
believe that it is the only right way. The movie has its funny moments, some
moments of shock (you are warned that no animals were harmed during the
movie before it starts instead of after, a wise choice I guess), exciting
moments, melodramatic ones, and we have moments with a lot of suspense. A
great Mexican movie with a terrific direction and performances.