Biutiful (2010): 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 ... (7.5)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez and Hanaa Bouchaib
Language: Spanish | Chinese (w/ English subtitles)
A wheler-dealer in the Barcelona underground tries to keep it together. The story tackles quite a few issues in the modern-day metropolitan low-income society (not just Spain, IMHO). It asks the questions of who exploits whom, what is the right thing when your businesses are marginally illegal, etc. On reflection, it has a quite a lot of issues ranging from illegal immigration, sweat shops, drug abuse, cancer, death, raising children in the middle of all of this, and it looks at them from a couple of different perspectives. Thought provoking. My Rating: 8.0
