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BABEL: Santaolalla and Prieto Together

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Lynne:
I'm really looking forward to seeing this!

"...[Director] Inarritu does succeed in creating a compelling and unnerving sense of dislocation, by presenting several points of view, and several perceptions of the consequences, almost simultaneously. Essential to this effect are the contributions of composer Gustavo Santaolalla and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (reunited after their work on “Brokeback Mountain”)."

Here's the whole review:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15224680/

adrian:

Thanks Lynn, I gotta hear this.

A-

Ellemeno:
That does sound interesting.

(Without my glasses, I first thought this said, Santaolalla and Prieto Work Together on "Babe!")

:)

ifyoucantfixit:

--- Quote from: Ellemeno on October 27, 2006, 05:14:40 am ---That does sound interesting.

(Without my glasses, I first thought this said, Santaolalla and Prieto Work Together on "Babe!")

:)

--- End quote ---
thanks so much for this....i laughed myself silly,,,i do that sometimes,too.  great bit of late night fun....                                                               janice

Lynne:
The Boston Globe has a much more in-depth review of 'Babel.'  It sounds so intriguing to me.  Here's a fast excerpt, but the 3-page article is worth reading (www.boston.com registration may be required).

"The great passion of director Alejandro González Iñárritu -- many would argue his great gift -- is for building collages, and his new film, "Babel," which opens Friday, is another of his collage works. While the devastating edges of his earlier films, " Amores Perros" and "21 Grams," are tempered with hope, the themes of loss, alienation, and colliding worlds remain..."I like the idea of the Japanese story being like an incense, like a perfume, like a smell floating mysteriously during the whole film, until it's revealed at the end that it's the beginning of everything -- that without that, nothing will exist," says González Iñárritu during a conversation in Boston earlier this month. The concept, he says, was "how this story of chaos, of the butterfly in Tokyo, will spread a storm.""

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/10/29/the_music_of_chance/

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