Who is uxbals father in biutiful

Ana : Dad! How do you spell "beautiful"? Uxbal : Like that, like it sounds. Sign In. Play trailer Drama Romance. Director Alejandro G. Alejandro G. Top credits Director Alejandro G. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Biutiful -- International Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Javier Bardem Uxbal as Uxbal. Hanaa Bouchaib Ana as Ana. Guillermo Estrella Mateo as Mateo. Cheikh Ndiaye Ekweme as Ekweme. Diaryatou Daff Ige as Ige. Jin Luo Liwei as Liwei.

George Chibuikwem Chukwuma Samuel as Samuel. Lang Sofia Lin Li as Li. Xiaoyan Zhang Jung as Jung. Ana Wagener Bea as Bea. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

His heavy-lidded eyes do much of the work. Bardem captures the weight of sorrow bearing down on Uxbal, who is also a seer. And were there an Oscar for making a mullet foxy, the handsome Spaniard would reign victorious. It is requiem, dirge and reckoning.

This makes it demanding viewing. He urinates blood. His diagnosis — prostate cancer — is a freighted one, of course. This love story about fathers and children is populated with dads who want to protect their children, but are impotent to rebuff the certainties of mortality and pain. All the fathers, including Uxbal, love their children, but also offer them as excuses for sorry choices: the cop on the take, the street vendor slinging dope on the side, the Chinese businessman running the sweatshop.

She's bi-polar, prone to going off her meds and apparently incapable of fidelity. She's a quasi-legitimate masseuse and one of her regular clients is Uxbal's brother Tito, played by Eduard Fernandez.

She is the personification of narcissistic unreliability; witness the fact that she never seems to notice that Uxbal is obviously ill. He's so obviously in need of help that you may feel the urge to leave a casserole in front of the screen. Inarritu, who for his first three films teamed with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, co-wrote Biutiful with Armando Bo and Nicolas Giacobone. This screenplay is far more linear, and without the fracturing favored by Arriaga and which is not always successful, their 21 Grams was a mess.

But it has its own peculiarity. Just as Matt Damon's character communicated reluctantly with the dead in Hereafter, so does Uxbal. The difference is that he can see them and we can too, in various creepy poses. He could run a profitable sideline business getting paid by grieving relatives to speak with their recently departed, but chooses not to; it's too much of a psychic burden on a man who is already overwhelmed with the weight of the world.

This piece of magical realism seems to be Inarritu and his co-writers' gift to us, their means of leavening the hardships of the rest of the movie.