Amores Perros (BFI Modern Classics Series)

Amores Perros (2000) speaks to an international audience while never oversimplifying its local culture. This study of this film opens up that culture, revealing the film's relationship to television soap operas, pop music and contemporary debates about what it means to be Mexican.

Best known of the globally acclaimed new wave of Mexican cinema.

Paul Julian Smith is Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge and author of Contemporary Spanish Culture: TV, Fashion, Art and Film (2003).