“Amores Perros” won the Prize of the Critic’s Week at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.Ī new re-mastered version of the film will be available on streaming platforms later this year. All of a sudden this film came out with such power, the whole world knew about our reality in Mexico.” Although the credits of some of his films do not show him as the scriptwriter, he is engaged in the scriptwriting of all his films (LoBrutto 4 Takaya 7). García Bernal also remembers the cultural impact the film had at the time and said, “The concept of freedom of speech was difficult in Mexico. Near the end of the 154-minute running time of Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's exhilarating debut Amores perros, an old man. Edward Lawrenson introduces the film and Bernardo Prez Soler interviews debut director Alejandro Gonzlez.
Back then I was naïve, and so innocent, and somehow this film just happened to me.” Amores perros is a provoking, incendiary new film from Mexico about city dwellers and their dogs. “I was confused and then I saw there were other stories. What is going on? What happens to Octavio?” García Bernal said. “Wow, this is great but the film finishes too soon. García Bernal was unaware at the time this his story was part of a larger narrative. García Bernal played the teenager in the “Octavio y Susana” segment. “Octavio y Susana” centered on a teenager in the slums who gets involved in dogfighting, “Daniel y Valeria” focused on a Spanish supermodel who seriously injured her leg, and “El Chivo y Maru” centered on a mysterious hitman named El Chivo. Back then the name of the script was ‘White Dog/Black Dog.”Īlso Read: Alejandro González Iñárritu to Restore 'Amores Perros' for Film's 20th Anniversaryĭirected by Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, “Amores Perros” told three distinct stories linked by a car accident in Mexico City that brings the characters briefly together. I remember waiting for the script to arrive. “Back then I didn’t really have a clue about anything. We are broadcasting from Mexico City,'” García Bernal said. I was studying in London back then and I heard, ‘Hi Gael, how are you, this is WFM radio station.
García Bernal, who at that time was studying acting in London at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, received a live on the air phone call from Iñárritu (who was a host at Mexican radio station WFM), and told the young actor on live radio he was going to send him the script. Iñárritu reunited with the cast and crew on a Zoom call Wednesday as part of the opening night of the Morelia Film Festival. Timed to the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking directorial debut, Alejandro G. Dierdra Reber, Love as Politics: Amores Perros and the Emotional Aesthetics of Neoliberalism en Journal of Latin American cultural studies, 19/3, 2010, pp. Actor Gael García Bernal made a surprise appearance at “Amores Perros” reunion event on Wednesday and told the story on how he landed the role that would launch his film career. Chumo Peter, Script Review: Amores Perros, en Creative Screenwriting, 8/2, 2001, pp.