Love's a Bitch

Mexico City, 1999. Three stories united by a car accident: Octavio, who tries to escape the neighborhood with his brother's girlfriend using dog fights; Daniel, an executive who abandons his family for a model; and El Chivo, a former guerrilla turned hitman. Alejandro González Iñárritu made his debut in 2000 with the film that inaugurated the new Mexican cinema: intertwined narrative, thriller pulse, and an unflinching look at the inequalities of the capital.

Love's a Bitch opened the doors of Mexican cinema to the world with an energy and brutality that no one had filmed with such mastery. Iñárritu and Arriaga as a director-screenwriter duo in top form. The dogs as a perfect metaphor.