Amores Perros

Amores perros


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Directed by

Alejandro González Iñárritu



Produced by

Alejandro González Iñárritu



Written by

Guillermo Arriaga



Starring

Emilio EchevarríaGael García Bernal
Goya Toledo
Álvaro Guerrero
Vanessa Bauche
Jorge Salinas
Adriana Barraza
Gustavo Sánchez Parra



Music by

Gustavo Santaolalla



CinematographyRodrigo Prieto



Editing by

Luis Carballar
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Fernando Pérez Unda



Studio

Zeta Entertainment
Alta Vista Films



Distributed by

Nu Vision(Mexico)
Lionsgate (US)



Release date(s)

14 May 2000 (Cannes)
16 June 2000 (Mexico)



Running time

153 minutes



Country

Mexico



Language

Spanish



Budget$2.4 million[1]



Box office

$20,908,467[2]


Amores perros is a 2000 neorealist[citation needed] Mexican film, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Amores Perros is the firstmovie in Iñárritu's trilogy of death, and was followed by 21 Grams and Babel.[3] It is a triptych; an anthology film, sometimes referred to as the "Mexican Pulp Fiction",[4] containing three distinctstories which are connected by a car accident in Mexico City. Each of the three tales is also a reflection on the cruelty of humans toward animals and each other, showing how they may live dark or evenhideous lives. Amores Perros was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000 and won the Ariel Award for Best Picture from the Mexican Academy of Film. But the film's themeis loyalty, as symbolized by the dog, "man's best friend". Dogs are important to the main characters in each of the three stories, and in each story various forms of human loyalty or disloyalty are...