Gallery: Biutiful
Director Alejandro Inarritu has shown signs of brilliance in his previous films (21 Grams, Babel), but I haven’t loved any of his works.Biutiful – a title which reminds me of the misspelling in The Pursuit of Happyness – is his best effort so far.
This story takes place in Barcelona – but instead of seeing the beautiful Gaudi architecture, or the Magic Fountain of Montjuic, we see the slums. We see seedy apartments, sweat shops with slave labor and illegal street vendors that sometimes dabble in drug dealing.
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