Amores Perros
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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.
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- 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
"Bigger than Pulp Fiction ."
"... a brutal and loving masterpiece ..."
"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. "
“'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.
British Academy Film Awards 2001
Premio Ariel 2001
Nominated in the categories
Bodil 2002
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Festival de Cine de Bogotá 2000
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2001
British Independent Film Awards 2001
Cannes International Film Festival 2000
Camerimage 2000
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2002
Chicago International Film Festival 2000
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize 2002
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002
Fantasy postage 2001
Independent Spirit Awards 2002
London Critics Circle Film Awards 2002
Montréal Festival of New Cinema 2002
National Board of Review Awards 2001
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2001
Oslo Films from the South Festival 2000
Tokyo International Film Festival 2000
Valdivia International Film Festival 2000
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literature
- Arriaga Jordán, Guillermo: Amores perros . London: Faber and Faber, 2001. ISBN 0-571-21415-0 (English edition)
Web links
- Amores Perros in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Amore Perros atrotten tomatoes(English)