{"id":10542,"date":"2011-01-18T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2011-01-28T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T07:50:10","slug":"interview-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-on-biutiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/01\/18\/interview-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-on-biutiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on Biutiful"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the latest drama from director Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/a><\/strong>, an underworld fixer in Barcelona struggles to deal with his family’s future and his own mortality.<\/p>\n

Uxbal (Javier Bardem) oversees an illegal underground operation involving immigrant workers, drugs and construction, whilst also trying to be a good man to his estranged wife (Maricel \u00c1lvarez) and his two children (Hanaa Bouchaib and Guillermo Estrella).<\/p>\n

Notable for an outstanding lead performance from Bardem, the film powerfully explores the dark edges of a modern city and the lives of those who live in it.<\/p>\n

It marks a break from I\u00f1\u00e1rritu’s triptych with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel) and I recently spoke with the director in London about his latest work.<\/p>\n

You can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Alejandro_Gonzalez_Inarritu_on_Biutiful.mp3]\n

You can also download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

N.B. The title of the film refers to the orthographical spelling in Spanish of the English word beautiful as it would sound to native Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n

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Biutiful<\/strong> opens in the UK on Friday 28th January and is already in limited release in the US<\/em><\/p>\n

> Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a>
\n> Official site<\/a>
\n> LFF review of Biutiful<\/a>
\n> Reviews of Biutiful at Metacritic<\/a>
\n> Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/a> at the IMDb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interview with the Mexican director about his latest film, which stars Javier Bardem as an underworld fixer in Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[433,1627],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}