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Powder Keg
Soldiers patrol fields and rural villages. Their mission:
Find a photojournalist who has snapped a picture certain to
unite the world against their leader. Alejandro González
Iñárritu directs Clive Owen as the photographer’s driver and
sole hope of getting him and his film beyond the strongly
guarded border.
Running time: 8 minutes, 15 seconds.
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Filmography |
Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu cut his teeth making
commercials for a decade before directing and producing
Amores Perros.
Nominated for an Oscar in the 2001 Foreign-Language Film category,
Amores Perros follows three different sets of characters who are
momentarily connected by a car crash in downtown Mexico City. Dogs,
another connecting factor, reflect the torment of their masters and
their inability to distinguish between love and hate.
In telling three stories connected by one traumatic incident, Mexican
director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu uses an intricate screenplay by
novelist Guillermo Arriaga to make three movies in close orbit,
expressing the notion that we are defined by what we lose--from our
loves to our family, our innocence, or even our lives. These interwoven
tales--about a young man in love with his brother's pregnant wife, a
perfume spokeswoman and her married lover, and a scruffy vagrant who
sidelines as a paid killer--are united by a devastating car crash that
provides the film's narrative nexus, and by the many dogs that the
characters own or care for.
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