{"id":9434,"date":"2010-10-17T17:38:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T16:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9434"},"modified":"2010-10-17T17:47:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T16:47:05","slug":"blu-ray-amores-perros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/17\/blu-ray-amores-perros\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray: Amores Perros"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Three stories converge through a car crash in this brilliantly executed drama set in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

Amores Perros (2000) was the debut feature of director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu<\/a> and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga<\/a>, set the template for their\u00a0subsequent collaborations – 21 Grams<\/a> (2003) and Babel<\/a> (2006) – by exploring intense human behaviour through a non-linear narrative.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first section sees Octavio (Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal) try to arrange a dog fight so he can run away with his girlfriend Susana (Vanessa Bauche).<\/p>\n

The next show Daniel (\u00c1lvaro Guerrero), a wealthy publisher, move in with his housebound younger lover Valeria (Goya Toledo), who sees her pet dog get lost under the floorboards of their apartment.<\/p>\n

The final segment features El Chivo (Emilio Echeverria), an older homeless man trying to contact his daughter, whom he hasn’t seen in years.<\/p>\n

A startling feature debut for Inarritu, it deservedly reaped a lot of critical aacclaim on its release in 2000 and ended up with an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.<\/p>\n

The dark exploration of human and animal behaviour is a riveting watch, with fine performances from the ensemble cast – even the dogs are great.<\/p>\n

The graphic dog fights disturbed some viewers, who suspected they were done for real, but a short\u00a0featurette\u00a0explains how they achieved these sequences without harming any animals.<\/p>\n

When it was first released, some pointed<\/a> out the narrative similarities to Pulp Fiction<\/a> (1994), but Innaritu stamps the material with his own style and energy, creating a\u00a0searing examination of life at the margins of a city.<\/p>\n

In some ways it is still his most vital and stylish film, which marked the arrival of a major cinematic talent.<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

The extra features are:<\/p>\n