Behind Biutiful: Director's Flip Notes

Film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

It is a drama that, like a kind of fable, exposes a vision of the filmmaker about the political and social modernity of Mexico.

Iñárritu's first three films, Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006) — often labeled his “Death Trilogy” — represent a younger, more volatile Iñárritu. The films are messier and more violent, with smaller budgets, handheld camerawork and stories about unfortunate people and the fates that befall them.

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

Clive Owen plays "The Driver," a man who goes from place to place (in BMW automobiles), hired by various clients to provide driving or other services.

11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.

Young couple watching Jean-Luc Godard’s “Le mépris” in cinema. Segment from “Chacun Son Cinéma” (To Each His Own Cinema) collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.