The segment is sort of dark slapstick-morbid and ironic, as the romance is tested by the beauty's mutilation and by the frustration (known to every pet owner) of a dog that will not come when it is called.įrom time to time during the first two segments, we've seen a street person, bearded and weathered, accompanied by his own pack of dogs. This sequence surely owes something to the great Spanish director Luis Bunuel, who made some of his best films in Mexico, and whose ' Tristana' starred Catherine Deneuve as a beauty who loses her leg. Her leg is severely injured, and one complication leads to another-while the dog still snuffles under the floor, sometimes whining piteously, sometimes ominously silent. We discover that Valeria was involved in the crash that begins the movie we see it this time from a different angle, and indeed it comes as a shock every time it occurs. Is it lost, trapped or frightened? 'There are thousands of rats down there,' Valeria wails to Daniel. But then their happiness is marred when Valeria's little dog chases a ball into a hole in the floor, disappears under the floorboards and won't return. He's rented a big new apartment for her Valeria's image smiles in from a billboard visible through a window. In the second segment, 'Daniel and Valeria,' we meet a television producer (Alvaro Guerrero) who has abandoned his family to live with a beautiful young model and actress (Goya Toledo). Flashbacks show how Cofi was shot after killing a champion dog now the chase ends in a spectacular crash in an intersection-a crash that will involve all three of the movie's stories. This is Cofi, the beloved fighting animal of Octavio ( Gael Garcia Bernal), a poor young man who is helplessly in love with Susana ( Vanessa Bauche), the teenage bride of his ominous brother Ramiro (Marco Perez). The images are so quick and confused, at first we don't realize the bleeding body in the back seat belongs to a dog. 'Octavio and Susana,' the first segment, begins with cars hurtling through city streets in a chase and gunfight. That notice usually appears at the ends of films, but putting it first in 'Amores Perros' is wise, since the first sequence involves dog fights and all three will be painful for soft-hearted animal lovers to sit through.

The film opens with a disclaimer promising that no animals were harmed in the making of the film. The title, loosely translated in English, is 'Love's a Bitch,' and all three of his stories involve dogs who become as important as the human characters.

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