Babel

    Genre
    Drama
  • |
    • Runtime
    83 mins
  • |
    • Rated
    R
  • |
    • Release Date
    2006
  • |
    • Countries
    USA, France, Mexico, Morocco
  • |
    • Languages
    English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese
  • |
DIRECTED BY:
Alejandro González Iñárritu
WRITTEN BY:
Guillermo Arriaga
CAST INCLUDES:
Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Harriet Walter, Gael Garcia Bernal, Mohamed Akhzam

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

Academy Award winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (BIRDMAN, AMORES PERROS) weaves together a multidimensional tale that earned an Academy Award nomination, and a Golden Globe win, for Best Motion Picture of the Year. "It sweeps you along in a tide of cinematic energy and high-voltage drama" (Chicago Tribune). An interlocking story involving four different families, in the aftermath of tragedy that strikes amid a married couple's vacation in the Moroccan desert. BABEL features an all-star cast including Academy Award winners Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, Golden Globe winner Gael García Bernal, and Kôji Yakusho.

SYNOPSIS

An accident connects four groups of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes her young charges across a border without parental permission.

Babel

    Genre
    Drama
  • |
    • Runtime
    83 mins
  • |
    • Rated
    R
  • |
    • Release Date
    2006
  • |
    • Countries
    USA, France, Mexico, Morocco
  • |
    • Languages
    English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese
  • |
DIRECTED BY
Alejandro González Iñárritu
WRITTEN BY
Guillermo Arriaga
CAST INCLUDES
Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Harriet Walter, Gael Garcia Bernal, Mohamed Akhzam
Academy Award winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (BIRDMAN, AMORES PERROS) weaves together a multidimensional tale that earned an Academy Award nomination, and a Golden Globe win, for Best Motion Picture of the Year. "It sweeps you along in a tide of cinematic energy and high-voltage drama" (Chicago Tribune). An interlocking story involving four different families, in the aftermath of tragedy that strikes amid a married couple's vacation in the Moroccan desert. BABEL features an all-star cast including Academy Award winners Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, Golden Globe winner Gael García Bernal, and Kôji Yakusho.

An accident connects four groups of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes her young charges across a border without parental permission.

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