Žanr: Drama
Format: DVD
Poreklo: Strani

Love is a Bitch

Amores perros is a 2000 Mexican drama film, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Amores Perros is the first movie in González Iñárritu`s trilogy of death, and was followed by 21 Grams and Babel.[3] It is a triptych; an anthology film, sometimes referred to as the `Mexican Pulp Fiction`,[4] 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 2000 and won the Ariel Award for Best Picture from the Mexican Academy of Film. But the film`s theme is loyalty, as symbolized by the dog, `man`s best friend`. Dogs are important to the main characters in each of the three stories, and in each story various forms of human loyalty or disloyalty are shown; disloyalty to a brother by trying to seduce the brother`s wife, disloyalty to a wife by keeping a mistress with subsequent disloyalty to the mistress when she is injured and loses her beauty, loss of loyalty to youthful idealism and rediscovered loyalty to a daughter as a hit-man falls from and then attempts to regain grace.

The film was released under its Spanish title in the English-speaking world, although its title was sometimes translated as Love`s a Bitch in marketing. The soundtrack included songs by well-known Latin American rock bands, such as Café Tacuba, Control Machete, and Bersuit Vergarabat.

Themes
Inequality

The three overlapping stories all take place Mexico City, but because of class division, there is severe segregation of economic classes with El Chivo squatting on the outskirts of town, Octavio living in a working-class settlement/neighborhood, and Valeria living in a luxury high-rise apartment.[5] If not for the car accident, these three characters would never interact. The upperclass is victimized in Amores Perros even when they are the ones perpetuating crime, for instance, El Chivo is hired to kill a man’s business partner and eventually decides to leave both men to fight it out themselves. Although Ramiro works at a grocery store, he also participates in the underground economy by committing robberies. Octavio, and El Chivo participate in the underground Mexican economy as well, in order to secure untaxed income and bring stability to their lives.

Awards

The film was met with very positive reviews from critics and received many nominations and awards. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 92% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 111 reviews, with an average score of 7.8/10, making the film a `Certified Fresh` on the website`s rating system.

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 won the top award at the 2001 edition of Fantasporto.
The film won the Prize of the Critic`s Week at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
The film won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
Amores perros also appeared on Empire`s 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time where it ranked at number 492.

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
Music by Gustavo Santaolalla
Cinematography Rodrigo Prieto
Edited by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Luis Carballar
Fernando Pérez Unda
Production company Zeta Entertainment,Alta Vista Films
Distributed by Nu Vision (Mexico)
Lions Gate Films (US)
Release dates

14 May 2000 (Cannes)
16 June 2000 (Mexico)

Running time 153 minutes
Country Mexico
Language Spanish