So ‘Biutiful’

Alejandro González Ińárritu, the acclaimed Mexican director of Babel and 21 Grams, is back with his latest feature new on DVD this week. The devastating familial drama Biutiful stars Oscar-winner Javier Bardem as a father in free fall, on the verge of dying and forced to come to grips with a life cut short and the future of his children without him. In a role that earned him another Oscar nomination, Bardem moves through the Barcelona underworld earning an illegal living to support his children and struggling with long-kept feelings of guilt and doubt about his life choices, even moreso as his life appears to be drawing to a close. Rated R.