Biutiful

2 Feb 2011 - I am greatly looking forward to seeing the new Alejandro Inarritu movie "Biutiful". I have been a big fan since his debut with Amores Perros in 2000, and from what I understand Biutiful is another masterpiece. The movie received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film and the movie's leading man Javier Bardem hopes to receive his second oscar for best actor. The Mexican film academy chose the movie to represent the country, and the film was nominated together with movies from Greece, Algeria, Canada and Denmark. Inarritu said he would watch the other foreign films in the next few weeks and would attend next month's awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Biutiful deals with the lives of immigrants in Barcelona and tells the story of a father, played by Bardem, who knows he's dying and discovers the meaning of life and love. It will also be interesting to see what the movie will do in Malaysia, as immigrants are notoriously poorly treated here.