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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2023
Cast
Octavio, played by Gael García Bernal
Susana, played by Vanessa Bauche
Daniel, played by Alvaro Guerrero
Valeria, played by Goya Toledo
Jorge, played by Humberto Busto
Luis Miranda Solares, played by Jorge Salinas
Ramiro, played by Marco Pérez
Gustavo Garfias, played by Rodrigo Murray
Leonardo, played by Jose Sefamí
El Chivito, played by Emilio Echeverría
Andrés, played by Ricardo Dalmacci
Crew
Executive Producers: Martha Sosa Elizondo, Francisco González Compeán
Photography: Rodrigo Prieto
Production Designer: Brigitte Broch
Wardrobe: Gabriela Diaque
Casting Director: Manuel Teil
Original Music: Gustavo Santaolalla
Production Director: Tita Lombardo
Editors: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Luis Carballar, Fernando Pérez Unda Audio Design: Zeta Audio by Martín Hernández
Musical Supervisor: Lynn Fainchtein
Associate Producers: Raúl Alvaro Ferrer, Guillermo Arriaga Jordan, Pelayo Gutiérrez, Mónica Lozano
Awards
BAFTA winner, The Orange British Academy Film Award, Best Film not in the English Language, 2000
Winner, Critics’Week, International Film Festival, Cannes, 2000
Winner, Film Festival, Bogotá, 2000
Winner, Chicago International Film Festival, 2000
Winner, São Paolo International Film Festival, 2000
Nominee, Best Foreign Film, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
Hollywood, 2000
Plot
The film opens with a car chase, Octavio and his friend are being pursued by a gang in a truck wielding a gun, and have a dog bleeding to death on the back seat. Car crash; the woman in the other car is screaming to get out. Cuts to a dog fight in which Jarocho’s dog wins, and then to the house in which Susana and Ramiro live with Ramiro’s mother and Ramiro’s brother, Octavio. Susana accidentally lets the dog out, Cofi, and it kills Jarocho’s dog. Jarocho asks for Alejandro’s dog in exchange, but he refuses. Chivito pulls out a gun and shoots someone in the back sitting in a restaurant. Daniel and his wife, Julieta, come home; the phone rings but nobody’s there. Susana tells Octavio that she is pregnant with Ramiro’s child; Octavio confesses his love for his sister-in-law, Susana. Ramiro and his friend rob a pharmacy. It soon becomes clear that what we are seeing is not cross-cutting so much as flashbacks to different scenes from different people’s lives. We reconstruct Octavio’s life as he begins to win money with his dog, Cofi, and tries to persuade Susana to run off with him.
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