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3 unusual facts about Amores perros


Amores perros

Yuva/Aayutha Ezhuthu - Hindi/Tamil films with similar narrative structure.

The soundtrack included songs by well-known Latin American rock bands, such as Café Tacuba, Control Machete, and Bersuit Vergarabat.

Nicotina

It was produced by the same team as the 2000 acclaimed film Amores perros.


Guillermo Arriaga

Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a writer,” he wrote the screenplay of Amores Perros, received a BAFTA Best Screenplay nomination for 21 Grams, and received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

The success of Amores Perros earned Arriaga and Iñárritu an invitation to the U.S. to work on the Universal/Focus feature film 21 Grams, starring Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn.

Tacubaya

Films such as Los Olvidados, Amores Perros, and Perfume de Violetas have been shot here.

Ultraviolins

Dedbol is a series of disjointed dagli about random people—a serial killer, some kidnappers, a four-piece band, and girls on a shower party—converging for a split second in the Divine Intersection before splitting up again to conclude their narratives, borrowing Guillermo Arriaga’s narrative conceit from the seminal McOndo movie Amores perros only lacking the social and political implications of the original.


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