Babel (English, Spanish, Japanese, DVD)

Nominated for seven Oscars (including “Best Picture”), and with a strong cast headed up by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett: this superior drama begins with several seemingly unrelated events that take place around the world…before the skilful storyline starts drawing them all together.

In the desert of southern Morocco, a father buys a rifle that he gives to his two sons to use to keep the jackals away from his goats.

Richard and Susan (Pitt and Blanchett) are on an uneasy vacation together as they try to reconcile personal issues, following the death of their third (and youngest) child.

A Mexican nanny, working in America, impulsively decides to take the two young children in her care to Mexico, for a family wedding.

In Japan, a rebellious teenage girl is displaying attitude problems. Traumatised by her mother’s recent suicide, she has refused to speak ever since…and is bitter towards her father and every other male she encounters.

This is movie craft at its finest…and not all of the events are shown to us (the audience) in the order in which they take place. However, this simply serves to enhance the drama(s) even more!

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu won the prize for Best Director at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for this powerful multi-narrative drama set in Morocco, Mexico and Tokyo. A young American couple, Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett), go to Morocco on holiday to restore their fragile relationship following the death of one of their children. However, they are catapulted into disaster when a rogue gunshot fired by a Moroccan farmer's young son brings Susan to the brink of death. Meanwhile, the couple's other two children have been left at home in San Diego in the care of their housekeeper Amelia (Adriana Barraza), who cannot find anyone to mind the children while she attends her son's wedding across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. She decides to take them with her, a decision that nearly costs all three their lives. In the third storyline, set in Tokyo, a teenage deaf-mute rebel, Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), is reeling after the apparent suicide of her mother. Her attention-seeking behaviour makes her increasingly vulnerable, but can she attract the attention of the person she feels most isolated from: her father? The implications of language, whether unspoken or misunderstood, are the recurring theme in this set of interlocking tales of love, prejudice and the connections between us all.

General

Studio:	Paramount Pictures
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2007
Movie released:	2006
Actors:	Brad Pitt • Cate Blanchett • Mohamed Akhzam • Peter Wight • Mustapha Amhita • Adriana Barraza • Elle Fanning • Nathan Gamble • Gael García Bernal • Rinko Kikuchi • Koji Yakusho • Yuko Murata
Contributors:	Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu • Steve Golin • Jon Kilik • Guillermo Arriaga • Gustavo Santaolalla
Directors:	Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Audio format:	Dolby Digital 5.1
Video format:	Widescreen 1.85:1
Languages:	English • Spanish • Japanese
Subtitles:	English
Age restriction:	15
Categories:	DVD > Drama DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XFW-226-0KE-3
Barcode:	5014437918239

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