Until now Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu has made films that feature multiple story lines of people in crisis. With BIUTIFUL,
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, San Francisco, CA 10/8/10
he follows one story from beginning to end, but loses none of the complexity or richness of his previous work. It also incorporates part of his own experience of feeling a brush with death. When I spoke with him on October 8, 2010, it was the first thing he addressed. Inarritu, a gregrious man with a hearty laugh and a wealth of ideas, explicated on the film’s themes of sex and death, taking leave of this life in tiny increments, and why collaboration brought his vision into sharper focus.
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