Staff Pick is a monthly selection straight from one our own movie-loving staff members at The Roxy Theater. For this month, Concessionaire extraordinaire Sadie Oliver has chosen Biutiful, a supernatural saga by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, starring Javier Bardem.
Biutiful is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins. As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life's corridors, whether bright, bad - or biutiful.
Sadie sez: "“Biutiful” is a grief-stricken meditation on death, the fleeting nature of justice, and the hopelessness that will be endured for love — with a healthy dose of magical realism thrown in. Gorgeous, tender and horrifying, I always leave this movie feeling forgiven."