Q&A: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

For his newest feature "Biutiful," which will be released by Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment stateside in December, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu strikes out in a new direction. Working for the first time without his "Babel" screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, Inarritu wrote the first draft of his screenplay about a man, played by Javier Bardem, coming to terms with a messy life, amid the slums of Barcelona, as its end approaches. Inarritu spoke with THR film editor Gregg Kilday about taking a new approach, mixing the spiritual with the realistic, and why American distributors resisted the film.