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FILM REVIEW: Biutiful
3.20.11
Javier Barden in Biutiful
BIUTIFUL
Written and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring Javier Bardem
Review by Seth Rogovoy
New York Times film critic A.O. Scott handily summarized the Oscar-nominated film Biutiful thusly: “a feel-bad art film with an uplifting message for everyone.”
Writer/director Alejandro González Iñárritu wisely puts most of his eggs in the basket of Javier Bardem, also nominated for his leading role as a dying criminal with a conscience and a heart of gold, and thus wins a viewer over in this depressing, morbid tale of redemption in a world (the underworld of Barcelona) seemingly without either.
It may defy logic or belief – indeed, the film ventures into magical realism at a few points, as Bardem is given powers to communicate with the dead – but Biutiful is indeed formally artful, relentlessly bleak, and tragically beautiful.
Seth Rogovoy is Berkshire Living’s award-winning editor-in-chief and cultural critic.
Biutiful plays at the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington, Mass., this week.
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