Biutiful (2010)


One of this year's Oscar nominations for best foreign film, Biutiful relentlessly stalks a mystic hustler as he scrambles to care for his children in his final, chaotic days. In this character portrait that dabbles in magical realism, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, Amores Perros) poetically captures poverty, filth, misery and the desperation that transforms it into hope and heartache. Read the rest of the review on KCActive.com.