Biutiful (2010) on Netflix
In Barcelona, Uxbal raises his two children alone while middlemanning forged goods and passing messages from the dead. A terminal diagnosis leaves him weighing who will care for Ana and Mateo.
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- Rotten Tomatoes66%
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Plot summary
Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Biutiful (2010)
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- Javier Bardem's Best Actor nomination for Biutiful at the 2011 Academy Awards was the first entirely Spanish-language performance ever nominated for the award; the film was also up for Best Foreign Language.
- Alejandro González Iñárritu got the idea for Biutiful while listening to Ravel's Piano Concerto, and the concerto's slow middle movement features prominently in the film's soundtrack.
- Biutiful marked Alejandro González Iñárritu's first return to filmmaking in his native Spanish language since his 2000 debut feature Amores perros.
