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You are so 'Biutiful'

Posted on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008
by Cineplex Entertainment

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Having survived what may go down in history as the worst haircut of 2007, Spanish heartthrob Javier Bardem has shorn his unruly bowl cut and is officially Biutiful.

According to Variety, the Oscar winner has signed on to play the lead in Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu's appropriately titled film Biutiful, Innaritu's first project under Cha Cha Cha, the production company he owns with fellow filmmakers Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro.

The Spanish-language film follows a man involved in questionable affairs who comes up against a childhood friend - now a cop.

The film also marks Innaritu's follow-up to multiple Oscar nominee Babel and represents his first project after a widely publicized falling out with writing partner Guillermo Arriaga over writing credits.

Arriaga himself recently wrote and directed The Burning Plain which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and stars Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron.

Biutiful starts filming on location in Barcelona next week.

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