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Babel Movie Information
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 Directed by: Alejandro González IñárrituCast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Elle Fanning, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Nathan Gamble
Screenplay by: Guillermo Arriaga
Producers: Jon Kilik, Steve Golin
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 142 minutes
Rating: R for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use
Release Date: November 10th, 2006 (Limited)
Filming Locations: Ibaragi, Japan - Ouarzazate, Morocco - Sonora, Mexico - Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico
Studios: Paramount Vantage, Anonymus Content, Zeta Film, Central Films
In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world. In the struggle to overcome isolation, fear, and displacement, each character discovers that it is family that ultimately provides solace.
In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out – detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple’s frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief.
In the course of just a few days, they will each face the dizzying sensation of becoming profoundly lost – lost in the desert, lost to the world, lost to themselves – as they are pushed to the farthest edges of confusion and fear as well as to the very depths of connection and love.
In this mesmerizing, emotional film that was shot in three continents and four languages – and traverses both the deeply personal and the explosively political – acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Amores Perros) explores with shattering realism the nature of the barriers that seem to separate humankind. In doing so, he evokes the ancient concept of Babel and questions its modern day implications: the mistaken identities, misunderstandings and missed chances for communication that, though often unseen, drive our contemporary lives.
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Kôji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi lead an international ensemble of actors and non-professional actors from Morocco, Tijuana and Tokyo, who enrich Babel’s take on cultural diversity and enhance its powerful examination of the links and frontiers between and within us.
Paramount Pictures and Paramount Classics present an Anonymous Content production, an Una producción de Zeta Film, a Central Films production. A film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, BABEL. Casting by Francine Maisler, c.s.a, co-producer Ann Ruark, music by Gustavo Santaolalla, edited by Stephen Mirrione, a.c.e, production designer Brigitte Broch, director of photography Rodrigo Prieto, a.s.c., a.m.c, produced by Jon Kilik and Steve Golin. Idea by Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga. Written by Guillermo Arriaga. Directed and produced by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
International Release Dates
May 23th, 2006 France (Cannes Film Festival)
September 10th, 2006 Canada (Toronto Film Festival)
September 14th, 2006 Finland (Helsinki International Film Festival)
October 26th, 2006 Israel
October 27th, 2006 Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Sweden, USA (Limited)
November 2nd, 2006 Hong Kong, Netherlands
November 3rd, 2006 Brazil
November 10th, 2006 Turkey
November 15th, 2006 Belgium, France
November 23rd, 2006 Argentina
December 15th, 2006 Spain
December 21st, 2006 Germany
December 26th, 2006 Australia
January 5th, 2007 UK
January 12nd, 2007 Latvia
March 3rd, 2007 Japan
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