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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Biutiful

There are big question marks as to how Inarritu will do in his post-Guillermo Arriaga portion of his career. I imagine that we’ll have less intricate plots (no mapped out threaded connections between characters and grand themes explored through various POVs), but Inarritu’s true calling card is human drama and those emotionally charged sequences that rotate between despair and relief.

IONCINEMA.com Top 100 Films

#21. Biutiful

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

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

Cast: Javier Bardem, Blanca Portillo and Rubén Ochandiano

Why is it on the list?: There are big question marks as to how Iñárritu will do in his post-Guillermo Arriaga portion of his career. I imagine that we’ll have less intricate plots (no mapped out threaded connections between characters and grand themes explored through various POVs), but Iñárritu’s true calling card is human drama and those emotionally charged sequences that rotate between despair and relief. 

Release Date/Status?: This will be showcased in Cannes, beyond that I’m not sure what Focus Features has in store for it. Perhaps a December release?

 
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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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