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Midway Point: Top 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2009: #3. Biutiful

How will Iñárritu fare without Guillermo Arriaga? I’m guessing he’ll be more than fine (track record is impeccable). Javier Bardem is on board and so is DP Rodrigo Prieto.

#3. Biutiful

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Writer(s): Iñárritu, Armando Bo, Nicolás Giacobone
Producers: Fernando Bovaira, Alfonso Cuarón, Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Guillermo del Toro
Distributor: Focus Features.

The Gist: This is about a man embroiled in shady dealings who is confronted by a childhood friend, now a policeman.

Fact: Bardem had a spinal injury on the set.

Why is it on the list?: How will Iñárritu fare without Guillermo Arriaga? I’m guessing he’ll be more than fine (track record is impeccable). Javier Bardem is on board and so is DP Rodrigo Prieto.

Release Date/Status?: Currently in post-production, the chances this does a double showing at Venice and Toronto are very likely. A December 11th date is pegged for theatrical.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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