![]() The first third is set in the sordid, blood-steeped dog-fighting rings of low-life Mexico City, where slavering, snapping hounds hurl themselves at each other in ear-ripping combat. ![]() It's a film of extreme violence, among both humans and dogs. This year's Critics Week hit so far is a Mexican film - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's debut feature Amores Perros (it could be translated as Dog Love, although the press release goes for Love's A Bitch). That's the rather scrappily publicised section that most people get to explore only after they've trawled the Competition, the variable Un Certain Regard section and the Directors' Fortnight - the festival's most public-friendly chunk. One, however, has turned up in the nick of time, although it is unaccompanied by any press furore, largely because it is hidden away in the small but selective Critics' Week. I t didn't look as though Cannes was going to have a true controversy this year, or even any film about which to get really hot under the collar.
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