Biutiful (2010)

Beautiful disaster

Biutiful tells the heartbreaking tales of several hardworking people whose lives have gone wrong. Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Eat, Pray, Love) portrays Uxgal, a low class entrepreneur in Barcelona who employs illegal aliens to produce and sell counterfeit goods. Estranged from his wife Maramba (Maricel Álvarez), and raising their two children alone, he also happens to hear dead people. On top of all that he has cancer. Uxgal is a hard worker doing all he can to support his family. But nothing seems to be working out for him.

An engrossing tragedy with supernatural undertones, Biutiful gets 4 out of 5 Poblanos!

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Writer: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo, Nicolás Giacobone

Starring: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez and Hanaa Bouchaib

Rotten Tomatoes: 64%

Metacritic: 58 out of 100