Amores Perros (DVD)

The opening to this film is one of the best I have ever seen. It's fast moving, energetic, violent and passionate. It leaves you asking questions- Why are the two young men being chased through the streets of Mexico? Why is there a heavily bleeding dog on the back seat of their car? Like Pulp Fiction, this film dips in and out of time, going back to previous events and showing the same moment in time from different characters perspectives. The opening car chase ends in a dramatic car crash which affects three random peoples lives and sets the ball rolling for the film. Essentially, Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) is three ...  Read the complete review

Bam, we’re right into the high-speed car chase, with jump cuts, in-yer face camera angles and lots of Tarantino tomato sauce. For the first forty minutes or so of this remarkable first feature by former DJ Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, the pace hardly lets up, and neither does the packageable Mex-Rap soundtrack. Then we realise - with a sinking feeling - that the powerful story of teenage passion and malaise occupying centre stage is only one of three plots which overlap, like a Venn diagram, around the shared experience of a car crash. As often happens in such Magnolia-style symphonic works, some of the stories just ain’t as interesting as others. ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is famed for his trilogy of films that explore various interconnected stories, each set in vastly different locations. His other films include the Oscar nominated films 21 Grams (starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro) and Babel (starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett). Amores Perros, though, was the first film in the trilogy (and the only one shot in his native Mexico), and set a stunning thematic and stylistic framework that has been imitated and emulated many times since. The film depicts the stories of three people, all of which in some ...  Read the complete review

Amores Perros - which translates to 'Love's a bitch' was the first of the three multi-narative films by Alejandro along with Babel and 21 Grams. Amores Perros the one i believe to be the best of the three and It has been said that it has taken influence from Tarantino's form of film making, stylish violence paired with jumbled narative and some gutsey characters. This was the deput for Alexjandro and although the film ultimately offers nothing particular new in terms of structure its the vibrant way its shot and the symbolism/imagery that Alexjandro uses that has earned Amores Perros its place on the list. The film has 3 naratives where the main characters of ...  Read the complete review

INTRODUCTION Amores Perros is a Spanish language movie set in Mexico. It is the debut feature film from director Alejandro González Iñárritu and was made in the year 2000. I picked it up brand new for £2 in a clearance sale from my local Blockbusters store. It is available from Amazon for £5.78. PLOT The film is actually done in 3 separate parts. Linking these parts is a single incident - a car crash that occurs right at the beginning of the movie. After this we get 3 distinct chapters all with their own titles (a la Pulp Fiction). Part 1 tells the story of Octavio, who lives at home with his mother, his brother Ramiro ...  Read the complete review