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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PITT,BRAD
EAN: 0097363459842
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Running Time: 143 minutes
Sales Rank: 6021
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 2006
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Tragedy strikes a couple vacationing in Morocco which sets off a chain of events linking four groups of people vastly separated by culture and distance.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 31-JUL-2007
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Brilliantly conceived, superbly directed, and beautifully acted, Babel is inarguably one of the best films of 2006. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and his co-writer, Guillermo Arriaga (the two also collaborated on Amores Perros and 21 Grams) weave together the disparate strands of their story into a finely hewn fabric by focusing on what appear to be several equally incongruent characters: an American (Brad Pitt) touring Morocco with his wife (Cate Blanchett) become the focus of an international incident also involving a hardscrabble Moroccan farmer (Mustapha Rachidi) struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny (Adriana Barraza), her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take their kids with her to a wedding in Mexico. And a deaf-mute Japanese teen (the extraordinary Rinko Kikuchi) deals with a relationship with her father (Koji Yakusho) and the world in general that's been upended by the death of her mother. It is perhaps not surprising, or particularly original, that a gun is the device that ties these people together. Yet Babel isn't merely about violence and its tragic consequences. It's about communication, and especially the lack of it--both intercultural, raising issues like terrorism and immigration, and intracultural, as basic as husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their children. Iñárritu's command of his medium, sound and visual alike, is extraordinary; the camera work is by turns kinetic and restrained, the music always well matched to the scenes, the editing deft but not confusing, and the film (which clocks in at a lengthy 143 minutes) is filled with indelible moments. Many of those moments are also pretty stark and grim, and no will claim that all of this leads to a 'happy' ending, but there is a sense of reconciliation, perhaps even resolution. 'If You Want to be Understood... Listen,' goes the tagline. And if you want a movie that will leave you thinking, Babel is it. --Sam Graham
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Stills from Babel (click for larger image)
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - If you like stupid movies about stupid people, watch this one.
The storylines are stupid and the characters are stupid. What a waste of time.
Rating:  - THE MOST BRILLIANT FILM OF THE CENTURY SO FAR...!
As powerful and brilliant Inarritu's first two films were ("Amores Perros" and "21 Grams"), they seem to have naturally led to this quintessential masterpiece, "Babel", a tour-de-force of cinematic poetry and complexity of emotion.
Placing what seems disconnected stories in four locations of the world, the film gradually comes together like a wonderful jigsaw which succeeds at emphasizing how much all the people of the world depend of each other as well as the difficulty of human communication ... Read More
Rating:  - "Babel" - left wing Hollywood does it again
What did I learn from watching "Babel"?
1. Never leave your kids alone with a Mexican Nannie.
2. Being a Tokyo dentist has its perks.
3. Americans - just stay the F out of the Middle East.
Of course, the way this movie is produced is you're supposed to feel bad for the drunk Mexican endangering the lives of two little kids, and the "bad guys" are the border patrol officers who try to help them.
We are also supposed to feel bad for two Morrocan kids who shoot an innocent ... Read More
Rating: - Awful
This is a perfect example of what happens when a decent idea is poorly developed. A shame.
We waited for it--it being the plot, and characters worth caring about. And now that the movie is over, we are still waiting. Even though there were several interesting aspects, overall it was a waste of the concept.
Rating: - CONFUSING
This was the most confusing crock that I have watched in a long time. Already about an hour too long, I had to keep rewinding segments because I thought that I missed something. But I didn't miss anything - the producers and director did - they missed what makes a really good movie. The subject matter is confusing enough without trying to interweave a "Crash"-type scenario across continents and cultures. I'm still trying to figure out how the Mexican nanny fits in and she was the most sympathetic character. ... Read More
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