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Babel is Babel indeed. Director Alejandro Gonz??lez Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga are essentially up to the same trick they used brilliantly in Amores Perros, less so in 21 Grams--interweaving multiple stories about disparate individuals and eventually revealing their hidden connections. Since the characters are, in the present instance, operating on a global scale, some viewers will find Babel excitingly far-ranging. Others may find it merely far-fetched. Some will see the casting of Cate Blanchett as the wounded tourist and Brad Pitt as her husband as evidence that it aspires to be a major...
...conflict between the needs of her beloved charges and the call of a central event in her family's life. Her crisis is the more powerful for the way it takes her, unaware of the gathering threat, to the brink of madness and death. It is a measure of Gonz??lez Iñárritu's humanity that his protagonists are not all victims of their bad decisions. It is a measure of his potent skills as a director that he hammers home his melodrama with relentless ferocity...
Only in recent years have I begun to see the two brothers together at public events, as the younger Castro has become more visible. Raúl has played a major role in recent government battles--for instance, to get Elián Gonz??lez back from the U.S. in 2000 and to win the release of five Cubans convicted of spying in America the following year. When Elián was returned, however, it was Fidel who took center stage...
Babel Another chance-is-destiny parable from Alejandro Gonz??lez Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), the drama stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a couple tested by near tragedy. The film's ambition is imposing, the acting often illuminating, the pileup of coincidences finally exasperating. Marie Antoinette Sofia Coppola reimagines the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst as the Queen, above, got a few raucous boos, sending many critics to the defense of this lame satire, which may mean to make fun of emptiness but actually...
...relentless separations put particular stress on children. When schoolteacher Claudia Gonz??lez's husband returned after a two-year stint as a farmworker in Texas, her young daughter chased her father out of the house, yelling, "You don't live here. Go back to Texas!" Says Gonz??lez: "No amount of money from up north can bring those years back...