Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Biutiful’ Opens Wide On January 28
The holiday season release date shuffle continues. FirstGulliver’s Travelswas moved, thenBlue Valentine, and next is the Golden Globe nominatedBest Foreign Language filmBiutiful, written and directed byAlejandro González Iñárrituand starringJavier Bardem.Originally scheduledfor limited release December 29, it’ll now bow on January 28, right after the Oscar nominations are announced. (EDIT: The limited release date remains the same, so if you’re in LA/NYC you may see the film this month. Everyone else gets the movie in January.) Bardem won best actor at Cannes this year and the film is the Mexican entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.
Watch the trailer and read the official plot description after the jump.
Thanks toThe Playlistfor the heads up. Here’s the trailer for the film.
And here’s the official plot description.
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
