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Alejandro González Iñárritu (/ ɪ ˈ n j ɑːr ɪ t uː /; American Spanish: [aleˈxandɾo ɣonˈsales iˈɲaritu]; credited since 2016 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born 15 August 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the human condition.
- List of Awards and Nominations Received by Alejandro González Iñárritu
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be...
- 21 Grams
21 Grams is a 2003 American psychological drama film...
- List of Awards and Nominations Received by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Birdman, stylized as BİRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), is a 2014 American dark comedy-drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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- Antonio Sánchez
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Babelhas four main strains of actions and characters which are location-based. The film is not edited in a linear chronological order.
Babel can be analyzed as a network narrative in which its characters, scattered across the globe, represent different nodes of a network that is connected by various strands. The movie not only incorporates quite a large number of characters but they also are, as is typical for network narratives, equally important. It is noticeable that Babelhas m...
Writing
In one of the earlier drafts of the script written by Guillermo Arriaga, the Japanese deaf girl was originally a Spanish girl who had recently become blind. Earlier the main leading couple problems were infidelities, but a child death was introduced to allow Pitt to better understand his character. According to Alejandro González Iñárritu, the locations of the film played a key role in his life. He made a life changing trip to Morocco at 17. In his previous travels to Japan, he was convinced...
Casting
When the 24-year-old Rinko Kikuchiauditioned for the role of Chieko, Iñarritu was surprised by her talent but was reluctant due to her not being deaf. The casting process continued with hundred of actresses in the following nine months, with Kikuchi ultimately winning the role a week before filming began. At the volleyball match in Tokyo, most of the audience spectators were played by deaf persons. Brad Pitt backed out of a role in The Departed, which he produced, in order to film Babel. The...
Funding
Babel's $25 million budget came from an array of different sources and investors anchored with Paramount Vantage.
Babel was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. It was later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. It opened in selected cities in the United States on 27 October 2006, and went into wide release on 10 November 2006.When the film was released in Japan in 2007, several moviegoers reported queasiness ...
Box office
Released in seven theaters on 27 October 2006, and then released nationwide in 1,251 theaters on 10 November 2006, Babel grossed $34.3 million in North America, and $101 million in the rest of the world, for a worldwide box office total of $135.3 million, against a budget of $25 million. Babel is the highest-grossing film of González Iñárritu's Death Trilogy (including Amores perros and 21 Grams), both in North America and worldwide.
Critical response
Babel received generally positive reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 69% based on 205 reviews, with an average rating of 6.80/10, making the film a "Fresh" on the website's rating system. The critical consensus states that "In Babel, there are no villains, only victims of fate and circumstance. Director Alejandro González Iñarritu weaves four of their woeful stories into this mature and multidimensional film." At Metacritic, the film recei...
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Alejandro González Iñárritu (Ciudad de México, 15 de agosto de 1963) [3] es un cineasta, guionista, productor, locutor y compositor mexicano, ganador de cuatro Premios Óscar. Es uno de los cineastas más aclamados y reconocidos a nivel internacional.
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The Oscar-winning director on why his $135m historical epic ‘deserves to be watched in a temple’ — and is definitely not a Western. Alejandro González Iñárritu with Leonardo DiCaprio on ...
Amores perros is a 2000 Mexican psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Guillermo Arriaga, based on a story by them both. Amores perros is the first installment in González Iñárritu's "Trilogy of Death", succeeded by 21 Grams and Babel. [4]
