Babel

February 4

 
 

“a dazzling array of faces, languages and imagery that sears into your soul.”


In Morocco two young boys thoughtlessly fire a gun and he ramifications of that action are felt as far away as Japan, California and Mexico.  The film’s title expresses a somewhat bleak sense of miscommunication personified in different ways in each of the four stories depicted in the film.  This is a very distressing film to watch in parts, but it is well-worth enduring the truly gut-wrenching angst and trauma, and the almost unbearable anxiety that Iñárritu manages to instill in his audience - and there are small rays of hope.  Not for the faint-hearted perhaps but on of our year’s best films.


NB This film begins at 7.00 pm


Best Director - Cannes

Best Motion Picture - Golden Globes




 

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France/USA/Mexico  MA 142 mins