Babel (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.7/10   

Director:

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Escritores (WGA):

Guillermo Arriaga (written by)
Guillermo Arriaga (idea) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 noviembre 2006 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

If You Want to be Understood...Listen

Plot:

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

Plot Keywords:

Rifle | Morocco | Mexico | Wedding | American

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 27 wins & 75 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Poetry

Reparto

Brad Pitt	...	Richard Jones
Cate Blanchett	...	Susan Jones
Mohamed Akhzam	...	Anwar
Peter Wight	...	Tom
Harriet Walter	...	Lilly
Trevor Martin	...	Douglas
Matyelok Gibbs	...	Elyse
Georges Bousquet	...	Robert
Claudine Acs	...	Jane
André Oumansky	...	Walter
Michael Maloney	...	James
Dermot Crowley	...	Barth
Wendy Nottingham	...	Tourist #1
Henry Maratray	...	Tourist #2
Linda Broughton	...	Tourist #3

También conocida como:

Babel (France)
Babel (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use.

Duración:

143 min

País:

France | USA | Mexico

Idioma:

Inglés | Arabe | Español | Japonés | Japanese Sign Language | Berber | Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Clasificación:

Ireland:16 | Finland:K-15 | Canada:18A (British Columbia) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | USA:R (certificate #42677) | Sweden:11 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba/Ontario) | Norway:15 | Denmark:15 | UK:15 | Australia:MA | New Zealand:R16 | Singapore:M18 | Iran:18+ | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Brazil:16 | South Africa:16 (LN) | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:18 | South Korea:18 | Malaysia:18PL | France:U | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:12 | Netherlands:12 (DVD rating) | Czech Republic:15 | Iceland:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Azabu-Juban, Tokyo, Japan

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

Actress Adriana Barraza, in real life, has had a long history of heart problems including two minor heart attacks. Despite this, she still insisted on carrying co-star Elle Fanning around in the desert for the two days of filming of Amelia walking in the desert with Mike and Debbie.

Errores:

Continuidad: The tour guide's badge which is around his neck inside the village house disappears when he goes outside.

Citas:

[first lines]
Hassan: It's almost new. Three hundred cartridges. The guy who gave it to me said you can hit as far as three kilometers.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2007) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Iguazu

Poetry

Alejandro González Iñárritu's direction is brilliantly layered and intricately woven. He deftly uses different film stock, imagery, sound, and stories to weave a single tale out of four disparate ones, a talent he's shown in other films.

The story by screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and Iñárritu has one incident ricochet around the globe, and peeling back the layers of culture to show the frustrating inability to communicate, and the poignancy and universality of familial love.

Each story is complete, but a series of snapshots that leave as many questions as answers. As the stories unfold, the backstories and the futures of the characters are chock full of possibility and pain. As one commenter during the Q&A said, it was frustratingly beautiful. Each storyline deals with family and conflict from the inability to communicate or to understand.

All the performances are incredible, and very touching. Brad Pitt did an excellent job, and the always outstanding Cate Blanchett, a powerhouse actor if there ever was one, has the least screen time of any of the leads. Few can do so much with so little. But the really outstanding performance is Rinko Kikuchi as a deaf-mute Tokyo teen.

To say any more would possibly lesson the experience, so let me just say this: it may seem confusing at times, but by the end, it will seem like poetry.