Word: inarritu
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...AMORES PERROS Director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu makes the year's most exciting debut in a movie that intricately intertwines three stories about the lives of the people--and their distinctly anti-Disney dogs--involved in a car crash. Bleakly funny, his film is a deeply unsettling portrait of dangerous, beautiful Mexico City and of the human nature that shares its traits...
...Jerry Bruckheimer for some car-crash outtakes, Fincher lured a U.N. of directorial talent: Hollywood's John Frankenheimer (Reindeer Games), Taiwan's Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love), Britain's Guy Ritchie (Snatch) and Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros). Frankenheimer's short, Ambush, premiered last week on bmwfilms.com The next two, Lee's and Wong's, will appear...
Their stories don't relate narratively; they just glance off one another. But they do relate emotionally, "conceptually." As Inarritu says, "It's very simple: you get to know people through their dogs." Take Octavio. His relationship with Cofi is amiable but casual--until a rival handler shoots the dog, whereupon the frenzied Octavio stabs the would-be killer and rushes into his near fatal accident, as maddened by the threat to Cofi as he is by his lover's hesitations and ambiguities...
Except that, unlike Octavio and Valeria, El Chivo is shrewd enough to recognize something of himself in the killer dog, and to begin to make peace with his haunted past. It may be too late for any full-scale reconciliations, but his is the only hopeful story Inarritu tells, the one that catches this aspect of his belief: "We lose our innocence, our looks, our loves, finally life itself. We are what we lose...
...Inarritu is, for the moment, however, a winner. His film has won prizes at the world's film festivals and an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film, making him the hottest property in a film industry ever in the shadow of the giant to the north. He has to wonder if he can maintain his singularity. On the other hand, his debut film is as fine--hard, soft, approachable--as any in movie history. Don't bet against him. And don't miss Amores Perros...