Babel Review |
by Tim Voon |
'Babel' is a reference to an ancient city mentioned in the Old
Testament of the Bible. It was a place where all men spoke with a
common tongue and because of this unity, they endeavored to build a
tower that would reach the heavens and challenge God...more |
Babel Review |
by Mark R. Leeper |
CAPSULE: This is a moving but very downbeat film.
Four inter-related tragic stories are told in
parallel. In that sense it is much like last year's
CRASH. But the stories do not add up to much other
than to say that...more |
Babel Review |
by [email protected] |
Ba*bel [bey-buhl] [bab-buhl] -noun 1. (usually lowercase ) a
confused mixture of sounds or voices; 2. (usually lowercase ) a scene
of noise and confusion; 3. babel, confusion; mixture. Or, biblically-
speaking (Genesis 11:1-11), 4. an ancient...more |
Babel Review |
by Steve Rhodes |
BABEL is an excessively ambitious film which tells four interlaced stories
set on no less than four countries and three continents. BABEL's director
Alejandro González Iñárritu rose to prominence on the basis of his wildly
overrated AMORES PERROS....more |