Biutiful is a motion picture drama starring Javier Bardem, which was released to limited theaters in the U.S. on December 29, 2010. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2010.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1164999/releaseinfo The film, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (21 Grams), is a Spanish language film, and the first directorial appearance for Inarritu since the 2006 motion picture, Babel.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327944/http://www.ulike.net/Biutiful

The name of the motion picture was purposefully selected to represent the phonetic spelling of the English word "beautiful." Shot in studio and on location in Spain, this film also marks Inarritu's return to directing a Spanish language film since the 2000 film, Amores Perros.http://www.ulike.net/Biutiful

The nominations for the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony were announced on Tuesday, December 14, 2010.http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20449442,00.html Biutiful garnered one nomination, for Best Foreign Language Film.http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/ Other contenders in its category included The Concert (France), The Edge (Russia), I Am Love (Italy), and In a Better World (Denmark).http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/

The film's plot chronicles the activities of Uxbal, a man involved in an illicit enterprise, who must now face the confrontation of an investigating police officer who was once a childhood friend. The role of Uxbal is played by actor Javier Bardem, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his appearance in the 2007 film, No Country for Old Men.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000849/

Biutiful is the first film to be directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu without the collaboration of his former co-writer Guillermo Arriaga.http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/10/23/javier-bardem-is-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritus-biutiful-man Inarritu and Arriaga had collaborated on such films as, 21 Grams, Babel, and Amores Perros.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804566677/bio Their style had always been to interlace unrelated plot lines into a central theme for the movie.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804566677/bio

Inarritu and Arriaga split professionally in 2006 after their film, Babel, had been nominated for Golden Globe Awards in the categories of Best Motion Picture and Best Screenplay.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804566677/bio Publically, the split was categorized as amicable by Arriaga, but unsubstantiated rumors state that it was due to differences of opinion in how screenplay credits should be shared.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804566677/bio

• Javier Bardem: Uxbal
• Maricel Álvarez: Marambra
• Hanaa Bouchaib: Ana
• Guillermo Estrella: Mateo
• Eduard Fernández: Tito
• Cheikh Ndiaye: Ekweme
• Diaryatou Daff: Igehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1164999/

"Among other things, Biutiful means to offer a grungy corrective to more romantic representations of Barcelona, and on this level it succeeds; the city has rarely looked less inviting than it does here, a hotbed of crime and immigrant labor made atmospheric and tactile by Rodrigo Prieto's superb handheld camerawork." — Varietyhttp://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942786?refcatid=31

"Biutiful will require several viewings for the film to yield a complete portrait of its mysterious, flawed hero. Because for all the complexity of his previous films, with fractured, multiple narratives and an array of international characters, this in many ways is Inarritu's most intricate study yet of the human condition." — The Hollywood Reporterhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/biutiful-film-review-29616