Amores perros
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Directed by	Alejandro González Iñárritu
Produced by	Alejandro González Iñárritu
Written by	Guillermo Arriaga
Starring	Emilio Echevarría Gael García Bernal Goya Toledo Álvaro Guerrero Vanessa Bauche Jorge Salinas Adriana Barraza Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Music by	Gustavo Santaolalla Antonio Vega
Cinematography	Rodrigo Prieto
Editing by	Luis Carballar Alejandro González Iñárritu Fernando Pérez Unda
Distributed by	Nu Vision (Mexico) Lions Gate Films in world film magic Filmax International (Spain)
Release date(s)	14 May 2000 (premiere at Cannes) 16 June 2000 30 March 2001 5 April 2001 18 May 2001
Running time	153 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish
Budget	US $2,000,000[citation needed]
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Amores perros is a Mexican film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2000. It is an anthology film containing three distinct stories which are connected by a car accident in Mexico City. Each of the three tales is also a reflection on the cruelty of humans toward animals and each other, showing how they may live dark or even hideous lives. Amores Perros was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001 and won the Ariel Award for Best Picture from the Mexican Academy of Film. Download high resolution version (782x1100, 134 KB)Poster for the film Amores perros File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Alejandro González Iñárritu (IPA: ), born August 15, 1963, to Hector González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director. ... Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (b. ... Emilio Echevarría is a Mexican actor most famous for playing the role of Raoul, a Cuban agent in the James Bond film Die Another Day. ... Gael García Bernal (IPA: /gael gaɾsia beɾnal/; born November 30, 1978) is a Ariel Award, Marcello Mastroianni Award, Silver Goddess, two-time Premio ACE, Chopard Trophy, Silver Hugo, Chlotrudis Award winning and BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, Goya and two-time CEC Award— nominated Mexican actor... Goya Toledo is a Spanish-born Mexican film and television actress and model. ... Álvaro Guerrero is a Mexican film actor, best known for his role as Daniel in the 2000 film Amores Perros. ... Vanessa Bauche is a Mexican television and film actress, born in 1973. ... Image:JorgeSalinas. ... Adriana Barraza (born March 3, 1956 in Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico) is an Academy Award-nominated television and movie Mexican actress. ... Gustavo A. Santaolalla (b. ... Information Gender Male Occupation Police detective Spouse(s) Andy Harrison (1997-2000, divorced) Jessica Buchanan (November 9, 2006 - July 6, 2007; divorced) Children Jamie Vega (daughter) Portrayed by Kamar de los Reyes (1995-1998; 2000-present) Robert Montano (Temporary, May 17-30, 2007) Detective Antonio Vega is a fictional character... Rodrigo Prieto (born November, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican-American cinematographer. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is one of the worlds oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 89th day of the year (90th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 95th day of the year (96th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Mexican may have several meanings. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Alejandro González Iñárritu (IPA: ), born August 15, 1963, to Hector González Gama and Luz María Iñárritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director. ... An anthology film or omnibus film or portmanteau film is a film consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event (often a turning point). ... Nickname: Location of Mexico City Coordinates: , Country Federal entity Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded c. ... The Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Film is a yearly US award for the best film in a language other than English, released in the period October - September in the country of origin. ... The Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (The Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences) was founded on July 3, 1946 in Mexico City. ...

The film was released under its Spanish title in the English-speaking world although it was sometimes translated as Love's a Bitch in marketing. In a 2001 interview on National Public Radio Iñárritu pointed out that an American English idiom, Love's a Bitch is not a satisfactory translation of the title.^{[citation needed]} (Please see the section, On translating the title, amores perros, below). The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... NPR redirects here. ... For other uses, see American English (disambiguation). ... An idiom is an expression (i. ...

Plot

The film is constructed from three distinct stories linked by a car accident that brings the characters briefly together.

"Octavio and Susana" stars Gael García Bernal and Vanessa Bauche as the title characters. Susana is Octavio's sister-in-law, however Octavio is in love with her and doesn't like how his brother, Ramiro, treats her. Susana also has a story with Octavio and so he tries to persuade her to run away with him. Needing to make money so he and Susana can escape and start a life of their own, Octavio becomes involved in the business of dog-fighting until his dog Cofi (Coffee) is shot during a fight by the rival owner, whom Octavio then stabs. While being fired at by his pursuers Octavio finds himself in a car chase along with his lifelong friend and the wounded dog. In the crash the best friend dies and Octavio is badly injured. Gael García Bernal (IPA: /gael gaɾsia beɾnal/; born November 30, 1978) is a Ariel Award, Marcello Mastroianni Award, Silver Goddess, two-time Premio ACE, Chopard Trophy, Silver Hugo, Chlotrudis Award winning and BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, Goya and two-time CEC Award— nominated Mexican actor... Vanessa Bauche is a Mexican television and film actress, born in 1973. ...

"Daniel and Valeria" stars Álvaro Guerrero and Goya Toledo. Daniel is a successful magazine publisher who leaves his family to live with the Spanish supermodel Valeria. Unfortunately, Valeria is badly injured in the accident involving Octavio's car and therefore can no longer work as a model. Valeria's dog disappears under the floorboards in her and Daniel's apartment one day and stays there for days. This becomes a growing source of tension for the couple, causing numerous fights which leads to doubts about their relationship on both sides. Valeria reinjures her leg trying to help the dog resulting in severe internal bleeding which leads to gangrene. This forces the doctors to amputate, removing any chance she may have had at modeling. Once her leg is gone she realizes that her life is more than likely ruined since her sense of purpose, modeling, has been taken away from her. Álvaro Guerrero is a Mexican film actor, best known for his role as Daniel in the 2000 film Amores Perros. ... Goya Toledo is a Spanish-born Mexican film and television actress and model. ...

"El Chivo and Maru" stars Emilio Echevarría and Lourdes Echevarría. The story concerns an ex-private school teacher who had become involved in guerrilla movements that led him to be jailed for 20 years, who appears in the film as a bedraggled, nearly invisible homeless man pushing a junk cart accompanied by a half-dozen mongrel dogs that he cares for. Though he lives in perpetual squalor he is in fact a professional hitman, El Chivo. At times throughout his story, Chivo tries to make contact with his daughter, Maru, whom he abandoned when she was a child and who believes he is dead. Emilio Echevarría is a Mexican actor most famous for playing the role of Raoul, a Cuban agent in the James Bond film Die Another Day. ...

Hired by a man to kill his business partner, Chivo learns that the intended victim is the client's half-brother; and though disgusted by this he is about to make the kill when the film's central car crash interrupts him. During the chaos at the crash scene, Chivo manages to steal Octavio's wounded dog and takes it home to nurture it. Sadly, while Chivo is away, the rescued dog goes on to kill all of the other dogs in the house, but Chivo forgives him. Still grieving for his beloved dogs, Chivo captures both his client and his client's brother, and leaves them chained to the wall with a gun between them and within the reach of both, their fate left undetermined. He then visits his daughter's empty house, leaves a a message on her answering machine and a wad of money, and disappears again.

The movie begins with and revolves around the car crash which is the common event in all three stories. Octavio runs a light during a chase, hitting the car Valeria is driving. El Chivo is the first on the scene. This accident changes all three of the main characters' lives.

The film is a unique study of the common ties that bind the human experience of suffering together.

Production

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Awards

The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film also won the top award at the 2001 edition of Fantasporto. The film also won the Prize of the Critic's Week at the Cannes Film Festival. This page lists the winners and nominess for the BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language and Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film for each year, in addition to the retired earlier versions of those awards. ... The Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Film is a yearly US award for the best film in a language other than English, released in the period October - September in the country of origin. ... Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival, annually organized in Porto, Portugal. ...

On translating the title, amores perros

Just as amores perros itself is a film triptych, so also does its name present three interrelated interpretations. The Raising of the Cross, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp A triptych (from the Greek tri- three + ptychē fold) is a work of art (usually a panel painting) which is divided into three sections, or three carved panels which are hinged together. ...

Among the few Spanish language lines found on the official amores perros website are these:

Si tu historia acabó bien, explícalo en el canal de "amores". Si acabó mal, explícalo en "perros"^[1] (If your story turned out well, put it down to "amores." If bad, put it to "perros.")

To the author of these lines, amores is life's "goodness" or "sweetness" as in the Spanish aphorism, Hechos son amores, que no buenas razones. (Accomplishments are fine and beautiful, good excuses are neither.) And "perros" is wretchedness, as in, ¡Este perro de vida! (This wretched life!). Accordingly, with amores translating as that which is beautiful, pleasant and desireable in life, and perros that which is miserable and of bad luck, one true English language aphorism for "amores perros" is "Sometimes you hunt the bear, sometimes the bear hunts you!"

All the same, posters for the movie often pose the question, ¿Qué es el amor?^[2] (What is love?), followed by the film title, "amores perros," as a play on an answer, "amor es perros," meaning "love is wretched" (love's a bitch). And surely "wretched" describes the human-to-human love-lives of the film's three protagonists: Octavio fears and loathes his own brother and is abandoned by Susana; Valeria participates in the betrayal of her lover's wife, and Chivo is permanently shunned by his own daughter. But each have strong and dependable emotional bonds with their various beloved dogs. In this sense the third interpretation of amores perros, "amor es perros" ii, can be understood as "love is dogs", a concept that anyone who ever knew a dog can instantly understand.

References

1. ^ Amores perros
2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1827970048/tt0245712 Amores perros posters at IMDB

See also

• Hyperlink cinema - the film style of using multiple inter-connected story lines.

Hyperlink cinema is a term coined by author Alissa Quart, who used the term in her review of the film Happy Endings for Film Comment. ...

External links

• Amores perros at the Internet Movie Database
• Amores perros at Allmovie
• Amores perros at Rotten Tomatoes
• Amores perros at Metacritic
• Amores perros at Box Office Mojo

Awards
Preceded by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  Taiwan	BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language 2001	Succeeded by Talk to Her  Spain

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