New on DVD/Blu-Ray - BIUTIFUL

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's profound portrait of a conflicted man, played by Javier Bardem, gets a DVD/Blu-Ray release. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Picture and Best Leading Actor, the film is ponderous and a bit overlong (almost 2 1/2 hours), but through Bardem's confident, sensitive performance, it finds the right way to the audience's heart. Not exactly Inarritu's best, but certainly an improvement over his uneven and self-important "Babel", and definitely a significant and thought-provoking film. Available on DVD and Blu-Ray with some basic Special Features.

DVD Special Features :

• Director's Flip Notes - Making Of (22 min)
• Three Actor Interviews : Javier Bardem, Marciel Alvarez, Eduard Fernandez
• Trailers : "Biutiful", "Rabbit Hole", "Winter's Bone", "The Conspirator","Everything Must Go"
• Biutiful Crew (4 min)

Blu-Ray Special Features :

• [same as the DVD]
• Interactive Bookmarking Function

Product Description : Academy Award® nominee Javier Bardem is Uxbal, a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad — or biutiful — in this unforgettable Academy Award®-nominated film from director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel).

Release Date : 31 May, 2011

Run Time : 148 Min.

Studio/Distributor : Roadside Attractions

Rating : R for disturbing images, language, some sexual content, nudity and drug use.