Returning to his Amores Perros roots, the director of the previously acclaimed Babel and 21 Grams Alejandro González Iñárritu, is back with Biutiful. The somber Spanish-spoken tale stars Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men, Vicky Cristina Barcelona). After premiering at Cannes this spring, with a Best Actor win for Bardem, Roadside Attractions finally picked it up for domestic distribution. Check out the trailer below via Apple.
Synopsis: Biutiful is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins. As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life’s corridors, whether bright, bad – or biutiful.
Biutiful sneaks into theaters last minute on December 29th, 2010.
What do you think of the trailer? Does it have Oscar potential?