Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 36. Chapters: Actrius, All About My Mother, Anita Takes a Chance, Apartado de correos 1001, Barcelona (film), Beloved/Friend, Biutiful, Caresses, Ficcio, If They Tell You I Fell, Inconscientes, In the City (film), L'Auberge espagnole, Land and Freedom, La Bandera (film), La calle sin sol, Long Vacations of 36, Los Tarantos, Nada (1947 film), Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait, REC (film), REC 2, Salvador (Puig Antich), The Bilingual Lover, The Cheetah Girls 2, The Famous Woman, The Passenger (1975 film), The Wine of Summer, Uncovered (film), Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wheels on Meals, Why Not Me? (film). Excerpt: Biutiful is a drama film directed by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and starring Javier Bardem. It is Gonzalez Inarritu's first feature since Babel and fourth overall, and his first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature Amores perros. The title Biutiful refers to the phonological spelling in Spanish of the English word beautiful. It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 2011 - Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor, which it lost to In a Better World and Colin Firth for The King's Speech, respectively. Bardem's nomination makes his performance the first entirely Spanish-language performance to be nominated for that award. Bardem also received the Best Actor Award at Cannes for his work on the film. Uxbal lives in a shabby apartment in Barcelona with his two young children, Ana and Mateo (played by Hanaa Bouchaib and Guillermo Estrella, respectively). He is separated from their mother Marambra, an unreliable and reckless woman suffering from alcoholism and bipolar disorder. Having grown up an orphan, Uxbal has no family other than his brother Tito, who works in the construction business. Uxbal earns a living by organizing work of illegal...