Looking forward to Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Biutiful”? We definitely are.
Starring the likes of Javier Bardem, Blanca Portillo (“Broken Embraces”) and Ruben Ochandiano and produced by the Cha, Cha, Cha team of Iñárritu, Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron, the film — about a man involved with shady/illegal dealings who is confronted by a childhood friend who is now a policeman — was at one pointed being touted as a feature at this year’s Cannes and a potential 2010 awards season player but has been delayed despite completing shooting earlier in the year.
We asked for someone to corner Iñárritu at the Tokyo International Film Festival, (the filmmaker is leading the jury there), to find out what’s going on and our request have been answered. How’s this for an explanation? It’s not even finished yet.
While we were already pretty positive of the film’s delay until 2010, Iñárritu revealed this week to the Mexican media that he took a break from “Biutiful’s” post-production schedule for his Tokyo commitments and added that he still has at least three months of work left before the film’s completion.
“Over the next three months I will be immersed in that project and this festival actually [delayed] me a bit,” the director said about the editing process. “But the festival gave me a little distance [from the film] that I needed, but [I will] return to post-production and it will be ready [next] year.” Like we said, we pretty much presumed months ago this one was hitting in 2010, but it just adds to the overall mediocre pall that has hit cinema this year. But perhaps rumors of a premiere for ”Biutiful” at next year’s Cannes are on the money?
Iñárritu also took the opportunity to tease his upcoming projects, but revealed nothing. “Besides I have other projects [other than] that movie, but I like to talk about what I’ve done, not what I haven’t done.” As much as we’re excited for that, let’s just get this one on it’s feet before we discuss anything else.