Netflix pick for 2/18/13 – ‘Biutiful’

“Biutiful” is a 2010 Spanish-language drama from the director of “Amores Perros” and “Babel,” featuring an incredible performance from Javier Bardem that is pretty much worth the price of admission alone. It’s a grim and heavy movie about death and dying, as Bardem plays a guy dying of cancer and who is faced with the near inevitable fact that he will be leaving his young children with no money and a lousy mother, so he tries to hustle and use his weird psychic ability to make some extra cash at funerals and maybe do some illicit things that he shouldn’t be doing but feels like he has no choice because he doesn’t want to leave his kids with nothing. It’s not a fun viewing experience, but it is an emotionally charged experience and pretty satisfying.

So check out this movie at the link below, and yeah, it’s going to be a little intense and raw, but that’s because it is so well made, and really, you gotta see Bardem do his thing here, he goes all Brando, it’s downright cray.

Watch it instantly right here on Netflix!