Amores perros (2000)

Director:

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Writer:

Guillermo Arriaga (written by)

Release Date:

16 June 2000 (Mexico)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Love. Betrayal. Death.

Plot:

A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Car Accident | Dogfight | Money | Mexico

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 52 wins & 14 nominations

Cast

Emilio Echevarría	...	El Chivo
Gael García Bernal	...	Octavio (as Gael García)
Goya Toledo	...	Valeria
Álvaro Guerrero	...	Daniel
Vanessa Bauche	...	Susana
Jorge Salinas	...	Luis
Marco Pérez	...	Ramiro
Rodrigo Murray	...	Gustavo
Humberto Busto	...	Jorge
Gerardo Campbell	...	Mauricio
Rosa María Bianchi	...	Tía Luisa (Aunt Luisa)
Dunia Saldívar	...	Mama Susana (Susana's Mother)
Adriana Barraza	...	Mama Octavio (Octavio's Mother)
José Sefami	...	Leonardo
Lourdes Echevarría	...	Maru
Laura Almela	...	Julieta
Ricardo Dalmacci	...	Andrés Salgado
Gustavo Sánchez Parra	...	Jarocho
Dagoberto Gama	...	Alvaro
Gustavo Muñoz	...	El Chispas
Carlo Bernal	...	Javier
Rodrigo Ostap	...	El Jaibo (as Rodrigo Obstab)
Edgar González	...	Bebe Rodrigo (Baby Rodrigo)
Hilda González	...	Cajera (Cashier)
Patricio Castillo	...	Doctor
Ana María González	...	Enfermera (Nurse)
Roberto Medina	...	Conductor de T.V. (TV Announcer)
Ángeles Marín	...	Conductora de T.V. (TV Announcer)
Carlos Samperio	...	Hombre deshuesadero (Man at Junkyard)
Kazuyo Togawa	...	Sra. gorda (Fat Lady) (as T. Kazuyo Togawa)
Gema Aparicio	...	Empleada domestica (Maid) (scenes deleted)
Adriana Varone	...	Amante Luis (Luis's Mistress)
Bruno Salgado	...	Champignon
Adriana Islas	...	Lina
Regina Abad	...	Jimena
Leoncio Torres	...	El Pelón
Luisa Geliz	...	Secretaria Daniel (Daniel's Secretary)
Jean Paul Bierry	...	Hombre junta (Man at Meeting)
Alma Rocío González	...	Mujer junta (Woman at Meeting)
Mauricio Martínez	...	Judicial (Judicial Police Agent)
Juan Manuel Ramos	...	Policia (Policeman)
Ernesto Bog	...	Hombre 1 (Man 1)
José Luis Barraza	...	Hombre 2 (Man 2)
Jorge Arellano	...	Niño cuidador 1 (Boy Caretaker 1)
Jonathan Herrera	...	Niño cuidador 2 (Boy Caretaker 2)
Heriberto Castillo	...	Extraño (Stranger

Directed by
Alejandro González Iñárritu

Writing credits
Guillermo Arriaga		(written by) (as Guillermo Arriaga Jordán)

Produced by
Guillermo Arriaga	....	associate producer (as Guillermo Arriaga Jordán)
Raúl Olvera Ferrer	....	associate producer
Francisco González Compeán	....	executive producer
Alejandro González Iñárritu	....	producer
Pelayo Gutiérrez	....	associate producer
Monica Lozano Serrano	....	associate producer (as Monica Lozano)
Martha Sosa Elizondo	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Gustavo Santaolalla

Cinematography by
Rodrigo Prieto

Film Editing by
Luis Carballar
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Fernando Pérez Unda

Casting by
Manuel Teil

Production Design by
Brigitte Broch

Art Direction by
Melo Hinojosa

Set Decoration by
Julieta Álvarez

Costume Design by
Gabriela Diaque

Makeup Department
Isabel Amezcua	....	hair stylist
Marco Antonio Garcia	....	assistant makeup artist
Eduardo Gómez	....	hair stylist
Marco Antonio Rosado	....	makeup artist (as Marco Rosado)
David Ruiz Gameros	....	makeup artist (as David Gameros)
Gabriel Solana	....	makeup designer

Production Management
Tita Lombardo	....	production manager
Tlacateotl Mata	....	post-production manager
Oscar Reboreda	....	production manager: STPC
Erick Tamayo	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Efren del Moral	....	second assistant director (as Efrén del Moral)
Adrián Grümber	....	assistant director: second unit
Carlos Hidalgo	....	first assistant director
Julian 'Chico' Valdez	....	second second assistant director (as Julián 'Chico' Valdes)

Art Department
Pedro Alanis Alanis	....	decorative painter (as Pedro Alanis)
Fernando Ávila Alba	....	art department
Roberto Ávila	....	assistant decorator
Luis Blackaller	....	graphic designer
Luis Blackaller	....	set designer
Miguel Cervantes	....	assistant props
Enrique Correa	....	art department
Gilberto Cortes	....	property master (as Gilberto Cortés)
Ernesto Cortéz	....	art department
Ismael Damián Castillo	....	art department
Alisarine Ducolomb	....	art department coordinator
El Flaco	....	art department
Antonio Godínez	....	assistant props
Alfredo Gonzalez	....	assistant decorator (as Alfredo González)
Jesús Hernández Villegas	....	art department
Víctor Hugo Libreros	....	art department
Fernando Llanos	....	storyboard artist
Francisco Javier Moreno	....	art department
Óscar Neri Torres	....	art department
Alberto Piedra Cortés	....	art department (as Alberto Piedra)
Álvaro Pungas	....	art department
Carlos Rodríguez	....	art department
Fernando Rodríguez León	....	art department
Carlos Sanen	....	assistant decorator
Tacho	....	stand-by carpenter

Sound Department
Joaquín Díaz	....	sound editor
Antonio Diego	....	sound
Daniel García	....	assistant boom operator
Efraín García Mora	....	sound editor
Martín Hernández	....	sound designer
Martín Hernández	....	sound effects recordist
Martín Hernández	....	supervising sound editor
Carlos Honc	....	assistant sound editor
Carlos Honc	....	sound effects recordist
Samuel Mendoza	....	sound effects recordist
Rudy Pi	....	sound re-recording mixer
Andy Potvin	....	sound stereo supervisor: Dolby
Alejandro Quevedo	....	sound editor
Adrián Reynoso	....	assistant sound editor
Adrián Reynoso	....	sound editor
Rodolfo Romero	....	sound editor
Geoffrey G. Rubay	....	sound re-recording mixer
Leon Sandoval	....	boom operator (as León Sandoval Ortega)
Kaeri Tedla	....	sound effects recordist
Roland N. Thai	....	supervising sound editor
Rigoberto Torres	....	assistant sound editor

Special Effects by
Javier Martínez	....	special effects assistant
Alejandro Vázquez	....	special effects coordinator

Visual Effects by
Guillermo Franco-Guevara	....	digital artist
Miguel Moreno	....	digital artist

Stunts
Gerardo Albarrán	....	stunt coordinator (as Gerardo Moreno)
Igor Aranda	....	stunts
Ubaldo Bucio	....	stunts
Jorge Luis Corzo	....	stunts (as Jorge Corzo)
Tomás Guzmán	....	stunts
Javier Lambert	....	stunts
Mauricio Martínez	....	stunts
Raúl Martínez	....	stunts
Gabriela Moreno	....	stunts
Rafael Valdez	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Benito Aguilar	....	gaffer
Donald Bryant	....	additional camera operator
Victor Manuel Camacho	....	video assist operator
Arturo Castañeda	....	first assistant camera
Pablo Castillo	....	grip
Joaquin Cervera	....	additional assistant camera
Norman Christianson	....	additional camera operator
Esteban de Llaca	....	additional camera operator
Fernando Díaz Torres	....	second assistant camera
Gerardo Flores	....	additional assistant camera (as Gerardo Julian Flores)
Federico García	....	still photographer
Héctor 'Fito' García	....	additional camera operator (as Héctor Marcos García)
Jesús Francisco García	....	video assist operator
Manuel García	....	electrician
Martín Gaytán	....	additional assistant camera
Jesús González	....	gaffer
José González	....	electrician
Pedro González	....	key grip
José Gutiérrez	....	additional assistant camera
Lorenzo Hagerman	....	still photographer
Edgar Hurtado	....	additional assistant camera
Antonio Jara	....	grip
Luis Lara	....	electrician
Ignacio Martínez	....	grip
Noe Muñoz	....	camera loader
Salvador Orendain	....	grip
Miguel Ángel Pacheco	....	grip
Ismael Parades	....	grip (as Ismael Paredes)
Victor Manuel Ramirez	....	electrician
Antonio Riestra	....	additional camera operator
Humberto Sánchez	....	grip
Erick Sanudo	....	additional camera operator (as Erick Sañudo)
Eduardo Flores Torres	....	additional camera operator (as Eduardo Flores)
Mauricio Vega	....	electrician
Lohengrin Zapiain	....	additional assistant camera

Casting Department
Jorge Guerrero	....	extras casting
Sonia Guerrero	....	extras casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Ismael Jardon	....	costume supervisor
Margarita Lozada	....	costumer
Carlos 'Pollo' Munguia	....	assistant costume supervisor (as Carlos Alberto Munguia R.)
Francisco Rodríguez	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Pablo Baksht	....	post-production coordinator (as Pablo Baksht Segovia)
Carlos Bolado	....	editing advisor
Alfonso Cornejo	....	post-production assistant
Mario Sandoval	....	post-production assistant
Guillermo del Toro	....	editing advisor

Music Department
Carlos Arredondo	....	music editor
Carlos Arredondo	....	score recording engineer
Lynn Fainchtein	....	music supervisor
Herminio Gutiérrez	....	music coordinator
Daniel Hidalgo	....	original music
Anibal Kerpel	....	music engineer (as Aníbal Kerpel)

Transportation Department
Julio César Aivar	....	driver
Roberto Alcalá	....	driver
Manuel Ávila	....	driver
Arturo Ballesteros	....	driver
Eduardo Bonilla	....	driver
Eduardo Cortéz	....	driver
Raúl Escobedo Espinoza	....	driver (as Raúl Escobedo)
Alejandro Galván	....	driver
Enrique Garcia	....	transportation captain (as Enrique García)
Luis Miguel García	....	driver
Alejandro Gasca	....	driver
Urbano Guzmán	....	driver
Edgar 'Chivata' Lezama	....	action vehicles
Alejandro Linares	....	driver
Alfonso Medina	....	driver
Benito Meléndez Chávez	....	driver (as Benito Meléndez)
Mario Moreno	....	driver
Humberto Ochoa	....	driver
Carlos Ortiz	....	driver
Omar Pedraza	....	driver
Antonio Saldaña	....	driver
Pedro Urbina	....	driver
Gustavo Vallejo	....	driver
Alejandro Vázquez	....	driver

Other crew
Aurelia Álvarez Urbajtel	....	additional translator: French
Ernesto Aparicio	....	dog wrangler
Jorge Barba	....	assistant location manager
Ernesto Bolio	....	personal advisor
Ignacio Borja	....	title designer
Tessa Brisac	....	translator: French
Fernando Camarena	....	assistant accountant
Patricia Cano	....	location manager
Larry Casanova	....	dog wrangler
Abel Casillas	....	delegate: ANDA
Oliver Castro	....	title designer: main title
Mario A. Cornejo Ruiz	....	production assistant
Philip Dale	....	translator: English
Adrian Enriquez	....	assistant location manager (as Adrián Enríquez)
Luciano Falcón	....	stand-in
Armelina Fritche	....	wrangler trainee
Mayte Gallegos	....	location manager
Fabio García Montes de Oca	....	production assistant
José Luis Guillén	....	stand-in
Lucero Gutierrez	....	assistant to director (as Lucero Gutiérrez)
Yissel Ibarra	....	subtitle supervisor (as Yissel Ibarra Espriu)
Luciana Kaplan	....	script supervisor
Juan Carlos Landero	....	production assistant
Fernando Llanos	....	making-of
G. Pekas Lozano	....	production coordinator (as Gloria 'Pekas' Lozano)
Paco Medina	....	production assistant
Tavatha Menendez	....	stand-in (as Tabatha Menéndez)
Omar Moctezuma	....	staff
Juan Carlos Navarro	....	stand-in
Rosalba Nogueda	....	secretary to director
Grace Olvera	....	stand-in
Claudia Puebla	....	location manager
Israel Ramos Vargas	....	dog wrangler assistant
Anna Roth	....	production advisor (as Anna Roth Kanarska)
Pablo Rovalo	....	title designer
Timothy J. Sexton	....	additional translator: English
Raúl Torres	....	accountant
Ernesto Trejo	....	set medic
Silverio 'Chapu' Vázquez	....	dog wrangler assistant
Eduardo Vignon	....	stand-in

Thanks
Monica Abin	....	thanks
Javier Aguilera	....	thanks
Jorge Aguilera	....	thanks
Eliseo Alberto	....	thanks
Miguel Alemán Magnani	....	special thanks
María Eugenia Armendariz	....	thanks
Antonio Armonia	....	thanks
Patricia Arriaga-Jordán	....	thanks
Marianna Arriaga	....	thanks (as Mariana Arriaga A.)
Santiago Arriaga	....	thanks (as Santiago Arriaga A.)
Fernando Bennazar	....	thanks
Eduardo Berrondo	....	thanks
Rosa Bosch	....	thanks
Lola Bravo	....	thanks
Simón Bross	....	thanks
José Augusto Cárdenas	....	thanks
Pedro Cárdenas	....	thanks
Constanza Cavalli	....	thanks
Norman Christianson	....	thanks
Ignacio Cobo	....	special thanks
Rodrigo Cortés	....	thanks
Alfonso Cuarón	....	special thanks
Carlos Cuarón	....	thanks
Raúl Olvera Ferrer	....	special thanks
Enrique Figueras	....	thanks
Hector Gonzalez Gama	....	thanks
José Luis García Agraz	....	thanks
Octavio García Allende	....	thanks
Juan García Gutiérrez	....	thanks
Ricardo Garza	....	thanks
Dr. Eduardo Gavito	....	thanks
Federico González Compeán	....	special thanks
Arturo González de Cosío	....	thanks
Guillermo González	....	thanks
Guillermo González	....	thanks
Rodrigo González	....	special thanks
Jorge Guerrero	....	thanks
Carlos Hagerman	....	thanks
María Eladia Hagerman Jr.	....	special thanks
María Eladia Hagerman	....	special thanks
Mariana Hagerman	....	thanks
Richard Ham	....	thanks
Yissel Ibarra	....	thanks
Alfredo Iñárritu	....	thanks
Armando Iñarritu	....	thanks (as Armando Iñárritu)
Luz Maria Iñarritu	....	thanks (as Luz María Iñárritu Cervantes)
Alfredo Joskowicz	....	thanks
Eliseo Juan	....	special thanks
Vicente Leñero	....	thanks
Alejandro López Freixes	....	thanks
Augusto López Valencia	....	thanks (as Augusto López)
Luciano	....	dedicatee
Luis Mandoki	....	thanks
Ludwik Margules	....	thanks
Jorge Martínez	....	thanks
Eduardo Martínez Solares	....	thanks
Karla Moles	....	thanks
Jorge Mondragón	....	thanks
Celina Moreno	....	thanks
Carlos Olvera	....	thanks
Lila Ortega	....	thanks
Ricardo Pérez Teuffer	....	thanks
Javier Prado	....	thanks
Raúl Quintanilla	....	thanks
Julio Revueltas	....	thanks
Carolina Rivera	....	thanks
Pedro Rodríguez Garay	....	thanks (as Pedro Rodríguez)
Juan Carlos Rulfo	....	thanks
Alberto Sánchez	....	thanks
Jorge Sánchez	....	thanks
Alexis Sandoval	....	thanks
Antonio Serrano	....	thanks
Enrique Singer	....	thanks
Alejandro Soberón Kuri	....	special thanks
Héctor Suárez	....	thanks
Guillermo del Toro	....	special thanks
Belinda Uriegas	....	thanks
Antonio Urrutia	....	special thanks
Francisco Vargas	....	thanks
Alejandro Villaseñor	....	thanks
Judith Weston	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Altavista Films
• Zeta Film

Distributors

• ArtCam (2001) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Filmax International (2001) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Filmmuseum Distributie (2001) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Optimum Releasing (2001) (UK) (theatrical)
• Pyramide Distribution (2000) (France) (theatrical)
• X Verleih AG (2001) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Xenix Filmdistribution (2001) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (video)
• Benelux Instituto Luce (Italy)
• CCV (Norway)
• CCV (Sweden)
• EDKO Film (Hong Kong)
• Eurocine (Argentina)
• Europa Filmes (2001) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Filmfreak Distributie (2001) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Future Film (2001) (Finland) (all media)
• Intigrade Media (South Korea)
• LNK Filmes (Portugal)
• Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment (2001) (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Lions Gate Films (2001) (USA) (subtitled)
• Madman Entertainment (2002) (Australia) (DVD)
• Maple Pictures (2006) (Canada) (DVD)
• Nu Vision (Mexico)
• Shari Films (Israel)
• Sunfim (Iceland)
• Tokyo Theaters Company (Japan)
• Triangelfilm
• Umut Sanat (Turkey)
• Warner Home Video (2002) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2002) (Germany) (DVD)
• World Film Magic (2001) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Universal Records  soundtrack

Also Known As:

Amores Perros (UK) (USA)
Love's a Bitch (International: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence/gore, language and sexuality.

Runtime:

154 min | Turkey:115 min (TV version)

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Canada:18A | Chile:18 | Colombia:18 | Finland:K-15 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:III | Iceland:16 | Ireland:18 | Italy:VM14 | Japan:R-15 | Mexico:C | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Colonia Condesa, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Company:

Altavista Films

Trivia:

All the images shown on the TV sets during the picture are commercials. These commercials were also directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. They include a TV station promotional, an ad for a bank, among others.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Daniel is sitting in his office and phones his wife Julieta before hanging up with out saying anything, his cigarette is down to the butt and close to his fingers before his dials the number, but after he has hung up the cigarette seems to have grown a few inches.

Quotes:

El Chivo: So how shall we call my dog?
Luis Miranda Solares: I don't know, "LostDog"?
El Chivo: [sarcastically] You have a good imagination, you must be in advertisement!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Prozac tango (2005)

Soundtrack:

Atacama

reality is weirder than fiction

Maybe for most of you, people outside third-world countries like Mexico or Colombia, my home, movies like ths one are only representations of another world... something away from you. My city, medellin, is one of the most dangerous cities on the world. Mexico city can be as dangerous as medellin. I`m not talking about politics. maybe you haven`t lived violence as near as i have, but im gonna tell you something, that is the main reason i voted 9 this movie: Amores perros is not fiction. Its a perfect peep to what life is here. We have expensive models that go to stupid tv shows, we have dog fighting, we have mercedes, we have old trucks, we have killers, businessmen, we feel love, we have houses... our life, as you can see in the movie, isn`t as different as you think. Amores perros can show you that life is not easy here. but that`s it. What you saw is thousand`s of people life. that`s why it`s so magic to you. Yourè seeing what you will never live there, in london, new york, seattle, paris, berlin... reality is weirder than fiction... see it on amores perros, and you`ll believe me... live it here, and no movie will surprise you