Biutiful
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Genre: World cinema, Drama
Year: 2010
Country: Mexico, Spain
Language: Spanish Language, Chinese language, Wolof Language
Starring: Javier Bardem, Ana Wagener, Raul Moya Juarez, Maricel Álvarez, Tomás del Estal, Rubén Ochandiano, Karra Elejalde, Eduard Fernández, Martina García, Félix Cubero, Violeta Pérez, Manolo Solo, Isaac Alcayde, Jesus Puchol, Albert Grabuleda Capdevila, Diaryatou Daff, Luo Jin, Cheng Tai sheng, Guillermo Estrella, Hanaa Bouchaib, Cheikh Ndiaye, George Chibuikwem Chukwuma, Lang Sofia Lin, Yodian Yang, Tuo Lin, Xueheng Chen, Xiaoyan Zhang
Biutiful is a drama film directed by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. It is González Iñárritu's first feature since Babel and fourth overall, and his first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature Amores perros. The title Biutiful refers to the orthographical spelling in Spanish of the English word beautiful as it would sound to native Spanish speakers.
It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 2011 - Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor, which it lost to In a Better World and Colin Firth for The King's Speech, respectively. Bardem's nomination makes his performance the first entirely Spanish-language performance to be nominated for that award. Bardem also received the Best Actor Award at Cannes for his work on the film.
Uxbal lives in a shabby apartment in Barcelona with his two young children, Ana and Mateo. He is separated from their mother Marambra, an unreliable and reckless woman suffering from alcoholism and bipolar disorder. Having grown up an orphan, Uxbal has no family other than his brother Tito, who works in the construction business. Uxbal earns a living by organizing work of illegal immigrants, a group
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