Biutiful

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Uxbal, a single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Year: 2010

Genre: Drama

Country: Mex

Cast: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib

Classification: 16

Certification: VL

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# Rog

Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012 09:03 AM

This tale of one man's struggle to do the right thing in the face of his impending death deserves its Oscar nominations. Javier Bardem is very complleing in the role of Uxbal and this is in many ways Inarritu's most intricate study yet of the human condition. Biutful begin's and end's with Uxbal handing his mother's ring to his young daughter and recalling a dream-like encounter in a snow-covered forest. This sets the tone for a harsh, unemotional story of putting one's life in order as a death approaches.