Amores perros
Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2000
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2000 debut is a tripartite Mexican drama linked by a single car crash. Three stories — a teenager in dogfighting, a model recovering from injury, and a hitman estranged from his daughter — unfold across Mexico City’s social strata. Rodrigo Prieto’s unadorned cinematography and Iñárritu’s tight editing sustain a tone of controlled urgency. The film treats dogs not as symbols but as narrative counterpoints, and its themes — fractured masculinity, economic precarity, moral inertia — emerge through action, not exposition. It won the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language and remains a touchstone of early-2000s arthouse cinema.