Here, the seemingly circumstantial incident connecting several parties is a car accident - an apt appropriation of love as a head-on crash where it’s difficult to assess any damage done until well after the daze wears off.Īn aged vagrant (Emilio Echevarria) laments the family he left behind. The title translates in subtitles to Love’s a Bitch - a cheeky play on the perros (dogs) factoring into each of the plots here even as the pooches prove a perfect metaphor for our fierce, and sometimes blind, loyalty to someone … even as it might lead to our destruction. Despite its bevy of Oscar nominations, Babelbarely possessed the energy to sit up and wave, and obtuseness obscured Arriaga’s collaboration with director-actor Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.īut Arriaga and Iñárritu’s narrative collisions of chance, connection and coincidence once leapt off the screen, most ferociously in 2000’s Amores Perros, which has been given a full restorative complement in a recent Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition. It’s difficult to remember a time when the hyperlink structure employed by writer Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro González Iñárritu didn’t feel like a gimmick on which they sort of lazily fell back (before, of course, Iñárritu shifted to showy and similarly superficial long takes).
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