Criterion Collection has announced that it will release the 2000 Mexican film Amores Perros, the debut feature by Alejandro González Iñárritu, which had its world premiere twenty years ago at the Cannes Film Festival. The director-approved special edition of the film will debut on Criterion on December 15 and will feature a new 4K digital restoration, supervised by the director and director of photography Rodrigo Prieto, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray.
The special edition will also include a new interview with Iñárritu by filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski; a new conversation between Iñárritu and actors Adriana Barraza, Vanessa Bauche, and Gael García Bernal; the new making-of documentary Perros, amores, accidentes featuring behind-the-scenes footage; rehearsal footage with narration by Iñárritu; a new interview with composer Gustavo Santaolalla; a new video essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith; music videos for songs from the film’s soundtrack by Control Machete, Café Tacvba, and Julieta Venegas; the trailer; new English subtitle translation; and essays by critic Fernanda Solórzano and author Juan Villoro.=
Sending shock waves through the Mexican film industry and the world, the blistering feature debut from Iñárritu brought the director’s electrifying visual style and bravura multistrand storytelling to the screen with the heart-stopping impact of a primal scream. In Mexico City, the lives of three strangers—a young man (García Bernal) mixed up in the gritty underworld of dogfighting, a glamorous woman (Goya Toledo) who seems to have it all, and a mysterious assassin (Emilio Echevarría) who is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter—collide in a tragic twist of fate that forever alters their personal journeys. A tour de force of violence and emotion captured in a rush of kinetic handheld camera work, Amores Perros is an unforgettable plunge into a world of brutality and aching, interconnected humanity.
