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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0658149811027
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 18, 2003
Running Time: 153 minutes
Sales Rank: 42763
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/18/2003 Run time: 153 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com:
Amores Perros roughly translates to 'Love's a bitch,' and it's an apt summation of this remarkable film's exploration of passion, loss, and the fragility of our lives. In telling three stories connected by one traumatic incident, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu uses an intricate screenplay by novelist Guillermo Arriaga to make three movies in close orbit, expressing the notion that we are defined by what we lose--from our loves to our family, our innocence, or even our lives. These interwoven tales--about a young man in love with his brother's pregnant wife, a perfume spokeswoman and her married lover, and a scruffy vagrant who sidelines as a paid killer--are united by a devastating car crash that provides the film's narrative nexus, and by the many dogs that the characters own or care for. There is graphic violence, prompting a disclaimer that controversial dog-fight scenes were harmless and carefully supervised, but what emerges from Amores Perros is a uniquely conceptual portrait of people whom we come to know through their relationship with dogs. The film is simultaneously bleak, cynical, insightful, and compassionate, with layers of meaning that are sure to reward multiple viewings. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Preceded "Crash"
This film preceded "Crash". If you enjoyed Crash, you will enjoy Amores Perros. And my money says you will probably like it more than Crash. You must take note of all the warnings of very realistic dog fighting and brutality, but trying to keep it in the context of the movie helps.
Also enjoy Gael Garcia Bernal before he became a star (before "Mama.." and "Motorcycle Diaries")
Rating:  - Disturbing, painful, depressing. . .
The dogs make out best in this movie; they just kill each other. The humans, meantime, maim, then destroy, each other.
Apart from the upset (revulsion?) I can not but feel; I don't quite know how to react to this film. Clearly there is artistic talent here; there are story lines here (well, more accurately, riffs on the hopeless despair of human relationships); there is highly professional filmmaking here. But for what end? There is just one location in this movie: Hell; there is just ... Read More
Rating: - Griping...
Movie is set on mean, crowded and polluted streets of modern Mexico City. The film explores the lives of 3 sets of characters and weaves the plot among them.
"Octavio and Susana" - Octavio who lives with his Mother, his violent brother, his brother's sister and their infant in a small crowded 2nd story apartment building. Octavio falls in love with Susana, his brother's wife and plots to escape with her - raising money dog-fighting with Cofi, his brother's dog. Susana lives in fear ... Read More
Rating:  - Violent and sad
I liked the acting but this was very violent and tough. I can't recommend it to people.
Rating: - PETA would be up in arms...
I see only one review below that addresses the animal concerns here...
by Book Maven, and it got a ridiculously low 0 of 4 favorables at this point, until I voted favorably for that review. Although the film has great performances, this kind of animal depiction CANNOT be tolerated with this kind of neutrality. I didn't see any note in the end credits about animals being treated humanely, I seriously don't believe they were.
When I was in Mexico last month I saw cats that were just skin ... Read More
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