Babel
- Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
- US/Mexico, 2006
I always look forward to a new instalment of the González / Arriaga filmmaking partnership. Babel is undoubtedly their grandest effort to date and it’s probably their weakest, but a flawed González movie is still extraordinary.
Babel has been described as the first film about globalisation: four stories from around the world interconnect to form a parable about love and consequences.
Whilst the narrative is uneven and binds together only with some difficulty, the whole product is visually thrilling and there are some stand-out performances, particularly in the Mexican sequences.
