Babel

Resource Information

The work Babel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waterville Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Babel

Statement of responsibility

Anonymous Content ; Central Films ; Dune Films ; Zeta Film ; produced by Steve Golin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik ; written by Guillermo Arriaga ; directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Contributor

• Mirrione, Stephen
• Prieto, Rodrigo
• González Iñárritu, Alejandro
• Blanchett, Cate, 1969-
• Barraza, Adriana
• Zeta Films
• Central Films (Firm)
• Anonymous Content (Firm)
• Rachidi, Mustapha
• Pitt, Brad, 1963-
• Santaolalla, Gustavo
• Kilik, Jon
• Yoshida, Kōji
• García, Gael
• Kikuchi, Rinko
• Arriaga, Guillermo
• Dune Films (Firm)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Golin, Steve

Subject

• Firearms -- Morocco -- Drama
• Father-daughter relationship -- Japan -- Drama
• Suspense films
• Fathers and daughters -- Japan -- Drama
• Deaf -- Japan -- Drama
• Farmers -- Morocco -- Drama
• Literature and technology -- Periodicals | Drama
• Tourist trade -- Drama
• Farmers -- Morroco -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films -- DVD
• Adventure films
• Thriller -- Feature
• Tourists -- Drama
• Adventure films -- DVD
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) -- DVD
• Adventure -- Feature
• Nannies -- California | San Diego -- Drama
• Communication -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired -- DVD

Genre

• Feature films
• Thriller
• Adventure
• Suspense films
• Periodicals
• Drama
• Adventure films

Language

eng

Summary

A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general that has been upended by the death of her mother. It's about a gun. It's about communication - or the lack of it - both intercultural and intracultural. Raises issues like terrorism and immigration, and is as basic as husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their children

Awards note

Cannes Film Festival, 2006: Best Director (Alejandro González Iñárritu) ; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Alejandro González Iñárritu) ; Technical Grand Prize (Stephen Mirrione).

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; editors, Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione ; music, Gustavo Santaolalla ; costume designer, Michael Wilkinson ; production designer, Brigitte Broch ; visual effects supervisor, Lon Molnar

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for violence, some graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use

Language note

Closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Koji Yoshida, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Mustapha Rachidi

Runtime

143

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action