Meenakshi Shedde, India Consultant to the Berlin, Locarno and Dubai Film Festivals, and a curator to several international film festivals tells us about some good movies to look forward to in the new year
5 FOREIGN MOVIES
Biutiful
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Spanish actor Javier Bardem won Best Actor at Cannes for his performance in Biutiful; for all his stubbly middle age and lowlife persona, he is sexy in a way only unreliable men can be. Biutiful is a brooding reverie on the interaction between life and death. Bardem plays Uxbal, a single dad and a hustler dealing with illegal immigrants, who is dying of cancer and worried for his kids. The screenplay’s melodramatic masala would make Karan Johar blush — yet the film is incandescent. I didn’t want to see another film for a long time.
(This story appears in the 31 December, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)