Gypsyblue
11-09-2011, 08:54 AM
Rented it last night and my wife and I were both blown away. One of those flicks I doubt I'll ever forget. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biutiful It was up for the Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards and did win at Cannes. You might have to search a little for it but the search will be worth it.
"Biutiful is the story of Uxbal – a single father who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amid the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona -- all before his time is up. He must deal with his loving but unreliable, reckless, and bipolar wife (from whom he is separated and who poses a threat to the safety of their children), and a large group of illegal immigrants for whom he obtains material so that they may not be deported. In the middle of all of this, he is diagnosed with terminal cancer, which he tries to hide from his two children."
Uxbal also has the gift of second sight and can communicate with the recently departed.
For the kind of folks who frequent this forum, I'd give this movie 5 stars.
"Biutiful is the story of Uxbal – a single father who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amid the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona -- all before his time is up. He must deal with his loving but unreliable, reckless, and bipolar wife (from whom he is separated and who poses a threat to the safety of their children), and a large group of illegal immigrants for whom he obtains material so that they may not be deported. In the middle of all of this, he is diagnosed with terminal cancer, which he tries to hide from his two children."
Uxbal also has the gift of second sight and can communicate with the recently departed.
For the kind of folks who frequent this forum, I'd give this movie 5 stars.