Iñárritu Much
26. Dec, 2010 
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Biutiful
A Lesson, A Kiss, A Prayer & 86 Other Things Before Dying
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21 Grams, Babel, and Amores Perros are three hauntingly excellent films that we’d never want to sit thru the pain of again.  Thanks, or no thanks, Mr Alejandro González Iñárritu!!  How bout making a happy film about humanity for once????  Guess you’re incapable of doing so, and even if yer latest Biutiful is one ugly mother, and not necessarily as potent as the three mentioned above, we’ll still take it, cause pretty movies are for sissies, and are released in the summer. At least Mr Iñárritu isn’t going anymore global than he did in Babel, cause where else could he go to contemplate man’s deficiencies, Uranus?
All the action and in-action of Biutiful occurs in one place (Barcelona), but the communication breakdown remains the same.  This time we gots Spanish thugs & cops & thuggish cops trying to take down and keep in bidness Chinese sweatshop owners who create knock off goods for Senegalese street vendors to peddle.  In the middle of it all is the complex character of Uxbal (Javier Bardem, our mos flavorite actor going, and the real reason to see this).  He’s got a whore of a wife (Maricel Ãlvarez, but who would touch this woman, even for free???), who sleeps with his brother, a cad who wants to sell their already buried father’s gravesite real estate for cash, and when Uxbal’s not out micromanaging the Chinese and the Senegalese folk, he’s got two kids (Hanaa Bouchaib and Guillermo Estrella, a lil bit more adorable than the Focker kids) to tend to.  Oh, did we mention that ole Uxy can talk to the dead AND juss found out that he’s gonna die within a few months on top of all this sense-non?????  What, you were expecting a walk in the park?  Expect a kick in the groin!!  Iñárritu much???  Maybe not enough!!!
Wait For It: there’s a scene in a strip club where the women have nipples on their butts, and it’s kinda creepy, and it’s also kinda hot, and since the internet is failing us right now, we can only tell and not show. Â sorry
Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers
Biutiful is full in NY/LA on December 29th, and elsewhere January 28th!
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
