Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
Direction
Iñárritu's globe-spanning juggling act finally sticks the landing.
Acting
Rinko Kikuchi's wordless nightclub scene—devastating.
Sound
Gustavo Santaolalla's score plus deaf-mute perspective = genius.
Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Brad Pitt
Richard Jones
Rinko Kikuchi
Chieko
Adriana Barraza
Amelia
Cate Blanchett
Susan Jones
Satoshi Nikaido
Kenji Mamiya
Said Tarchani
Ahmed
Boubker Ait El Caid
Yussef
Gael García Bernal
Santiago
Nathan Gamble
Mike Jones
Elle Fanning
Debbie Jones
Mohamed Akhzam
Anwar
Yuko Murata
Mitsu
Koji Yakusho
Yasujiro Wataya
Mustapha Rachidi
Abdullah
Abdelkader Bara
Hassan Ibrahim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The deaf-mute nightclub scene used a 360-degree camera rig with bone-conduction speakers so Kikuchi could feel the bass frequencies.
Babel completed Iñárritu's 'Death Trilogy' with Amores Perros and 21 Grams—though this one finally lets some light leak through the cracks.
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