This is a free screening for members only.
25 years after its initial US release, when it opened at the Burns during our inaugural season of screenings, this remarkable debut feature from Academy Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) returns to the big screen with a new 4K restoration. Featuring stunning cinematography from Rodrigo Prieto (Brokeback Mountain), a breakthrough performance Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También), and music from composer Gustavo Santaolalla (The Last of Us), Amores Perros is a visceral reflection on human chaos, cruelty, and tenderness which remains as bold and affecting as ever.
As three lives from disparate parts of Mexico City converge in a fatal car crash, their fractured stories unfold—revealing their protagonists to be more connected than they initially seem. Teenaged Octavio (Gael García Bernal) decides to run away with his brother’s wife. Desperate for cash, he ventures into the urban underworld, sending their love triangle into an irreversible spiral. Beautiful model Valeria (Goya Toledo) moves in with a lover who left his family to be with her. But the collision brings her life and career to a sudden halt, taking away what is most important to her. El Chivo (Emilio Echeverría) quietly exists as a homeless man in the shadows, masking his occupation as a hitman. While in pursuit of a target, he witnesses the car crash, and is entangled in the aftermath.
