Amores Perros

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Movie
German title Amores Perros
Original title Amores perros
Country of production Mexico
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2000
length 147 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Alejandro González Iñárritu
script Guillermo Arriaga
production Alejandro González Iñárritu
music Gustavo Santaolalla and Antonio Vega
camera Rodrigo Prieto
cut Luis Carballar , Alejandro González Iñárritu and Fernando Pérez Unda
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Amores Perros is the debut feature film by the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu from 2000 . The drama is based on the complex original script by Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga .

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In his highly acclaimed debut film, Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu tells three episodes about love, hate, dreams and death in the metropolis of Mexico City , which fatefully overlap due to a serious car accident.

Octavio and Susana

The first episode is about the young and naive Octavio, who lives together with his brother Ramiro, his wife Susana and child and his mother in a small house in the poor parts of the city. While Ramiro, who is prone to violence, occasionally raids pharmacies to support his small family, Octavio takes part in brutal dog competitions with their dog Khofi. Octavio and Susana start an affair and dream of a better future, which he wants to finance with the money won from the dog competitions. Instead, Ramiro and Susana make off with Octavio's money. In one last dog fight, Octavio is betrayed by his opponent. Octavio stabs the impostor and causes a car accident while fleeing from his cronies.

Valeria and Daniel

Valeria is on the sunny side of life. She is a top model and smiles from huge billboards in downtown Mexico City after a profitable perfume campaign. Although she claims on a TV show that she is in a relationship with the handsome actor Andrés Salgado, in reality Valeria is having an affair with the married publisher Daniel. When Daniel actually leaves his family and moves in with them, Valeria suffers a serious car accident. She loses her model contract and, after a complication, her right leg.

El Chivo and Maru

Old El Chivo lives with a group of dogs in Mexico City and works as an occasional hit man. After studying his latest murder of a businessman in the newspaper, he sees his wife's obituary notice. El Chivo had left his wife and their then only two-year-old daughter Maru decades ago to fight for a better future as a revolutionary. When the old man visits the funeral service and sees Maru again for the first time in a long time, he tries to get in touch with her again. But Maru doesn't even know that Chivo is her father.

On a last assignment, he observed Octavio and Valeria's car accident. He rescues the seriously injured dog Khofi and nurses him back to health. When El Chivo is out one day, Khofi kills all the other dogs. Because of this experience, El Chivo kidnaps his target instead of killing them. He locks the man up with the client. Then he leaves his daughter with money and disappears from town with Khofi.

Remarks

  • The car accident, which is at the center of the film, was filmed with nine simultaneous cameras, including two cameras on adjacent house roofs and a hidden camera in a trash can. A stunt driver was in the black car, a Mercury Grand Marquis from 1984, which is driven by Octavio in the film, while a remote-controlled crash dummy was sitting in the car of the photo model Valeria. After a test run, the film sequence was finished after the second shoot. That film material from both shoots was used can be seen from the fact that Octavio's car is briefly a Ford LTD from 1979 towards the end of the sequence - a parallel model of the Mercury Grand Marquis that is almost identical except for the radiator grille.
  • The dog fight scenes in the film outraged animal rights activists worldwide, for example the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in England lodged a complaint about a 21-second dog fight scene with the British Board of Film Classification , although this was pointed out at the beginning of the film that no animal died during the shooting.
  • The budget of Amores Perros is estimated at "only" two million US dollars despite the engagement of well-known actors .

Reviews

"... a brutal and loving masterpiece ..."

- star

"Amores Perros seems to be the first classic of the new century, with scenes that are likely to go down in history."

“Social criticism has seldom been exercised with such stylistic perfection. The violent and at the same time tender (survival) portrait will fascinate film art lovers. "

- Video Week

“'Amores Perros' shows his love for life, but is not under any illusions. Hope exists, but man himself tramples it. Just as love and hate are the extremes of the same feeling, the contradictions, best united in the figure of the broken revolutionary, define the true nature of life. It is hard to imagine that you would leave this film, which can be discussed for a long time, at the cinema exit and not take it home thoughtfully. "

Awards

Amores Perros , who began his triumphal procession with two golden palms in Cannes in 2000 , has received over 35 international festival and critic awards and has been nominated for the Golden Globe for best foreign film and for an Oscar for best foreign language film . The film also won eleven Ariel Awards, the Mexican Oscar equivalent.

Oscar 2001

  • nominated as best foreign language film

British Academy Film Awards 2001

  • Best Non-English Language Film

Golden Globe 2001

  • nominated as best foreign film

Premio Ariel 2001

Nominated in the categories

  • Best original script
  • Best film score
  • Best costumes
  • Best artistic direction

Bodil 2002

  • Best Non-American Film

Festival de Cine de Bogotá 2000

  • Best movie
  • Best director
  • Audience Award - Best Film

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2001

  • Best foreign film
  • Second place - Best New Director

British Independent Film Awards 2001

  • nominated as best foreign film

Cannes International Film Festival 2000

  • Great Criticism Week Prize
  • Young Critic's Prize

Camerimage 2000

  • Golden frog for the camera work

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2002

  • nominated as best foreign film

Chicago International Film Festival 2000

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize 2002

  • Best foreign film

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002

  • Best new director

Fantasy postage 2001

  • Best movie
  • Best director
  • Best script

Independent Spirit Awards 2002

  • nominated as best foreign film

London Critics Circle Film Awards 2002

  • Best Director of the Year

Montréal Festival of New Cinema 2002

  • Best script

National Board of Review Awards 2001

  • Best foreign film

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2001

  • nominated in the category of best young directors

Oslo Films from the South Festival 2000

  • Best movie

Tokyo International Film Festival 2000

  • Best director
  • Tokyo Grand Prix

Valdivia International Film Festival 2000

  • Audience award

literature

  • Arriaga Jordán, Guillermo: Amores perros . London: Faber and Faber, 2001. ISBN 0-571-21415-0 (English edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/trivia
  2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/business