Where they appear to be brawling, they are actually playing. You can watch fathers sleeping with their daughters and husbands beating their wives, but if there's an animal suffering people can't handle it." In fact the dogs wore painted plastic muzzles for the fight scenes. "In Britain you can see movies about people being cruel to each other. "No one bothered to ask how I had staged a car crash with humans," he seethes. The RSPCA was asked to establish whether or not there had been any cruelty during filming, and the dog-handlers were required to produce written statements about their working methods. And, following last year's premiere at Cannes, there was much speculation as to whether the dogfighting scenes would get past censors in Britain. The final story centres on El Chivo (the Goat), a dog-loving terrorist-turned-hitman who is suddenly bitten by his conscience. Part two has Daniel, a magazine editor, abandoning his wife and kids to move in with his mistress, Valeria, and her lapdog. Looking to raise some cash so they can run away, he enters his dog in some local fights where it proves to be the biggest bruiser of them all. We meet teenager Octavio as he tries to seduce his older brother's wife. The first takes place in a rundown apartment block. Amores Perros is made up of three intricately woven stories, all set in Mexico City, which converge several times over in a brutal car crash.
Some prefer them to humans others use them as a means of escape from their grubby lives. Yet, oddly enough, it's their devotion to dogs that binds the film's protagonists. Brief though they are, the fight scenes will etch themselves on your mind for months. Animal-lovers should steer clear of Amores Perros (rough translation: "life's a bitch"), the debut feature from Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
The other animal lies motionless on the ground before being dragged off by its hind legs, leaving a trail of blood and sweat. The victor stands quivering triumphantly next to his owner. The concrete chamber, perhaps part of a disused factory, is heaving with men in grimy vests, licking their lips with excitement. Two dogs meet in mid-air in a burst of saliva before dropping to the floor in a tangle of limbs, teeth and torn flesh. Juan Guillermo will have to answer his inner call of the wildĪnd discover what links his destiny to a hunter on the other side of America.Īn epic novel of revenge and retribution, in which the story of a teenage boy seeking vengeance for the murder of his brother by a sinister cabal is interwoven with that of an Inuit wolf hunter and his prey, The Untameable is a story of pure adventure, unfolding in the fragmented, non-linear fashion that Arriaga is famous for, and set against a backdrop of repression, police brutality and Church intrigue.The controversial Amores Perros is one of the film festival's hot picks - unless you're a dog-lover.
If he is to quench his thirst for revenge In Mexico City, Juan Guillermo has pledged vengeance.įor his parents, sentenced to death by their grief.īut in 1960s Mexico justice is sold to the highest bidder,Īnd the Catholic fanatics who killed Carlos are allied to Zunita,Ī corrupt and influential police commander. "Of all the wolves you will see in your life, one alone will be your master." The one his grandfather warned him about: A young man tracks a wolf through the wilderness. By the BAFTA-winning screenwriter of Amores Perros. A gripping coming of age thriller of vengeance and destiny set between Mexico City's murderous 1960s underworld and the bleak tundras of Canada's most remote province.
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