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Babel is the new film from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind 'Amores Perros' and '21 grams'. The film is split into three seperate stories told across Morocco, Japan, Mexico and Tunisia and stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal ammongst a host of other international stars.

Inarritu is a director I admire a lot, he seems to be able to give his characters weight, sincerity and substance that others directors would kill for. Admitedly he's always uses some of the best character actors around, but still it takes a great director to pull that performance out of them. There's not many filmmakers around that can produce movies that make grown men cry, but Inarritu is one of them. Watch 21 grams and tell me i'm wrong.

There's an early review over at fish bowl films here

Some clips here

Some stills over at Rope of Silicon here

and a bigger version of the poster here 

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