I wanted a script as fiercely human as possible. A sentiment so profound and human as love can be splattered by an instinctive brutality and cruelty.
Love is also betrayal, sin, selfishness, pain and death.
So far it has won 27 awards, of which 26 have been from international festivals. Among the long list, the most outstanding is the grand prize for the full-length film of the Cannes Film Festival 2000 . The secret of its success is that it portrays to perfection the vulnerability of being human. It reveals to us the most doglike aspects of life with characters who forget their divine nature to set themselves free in their own pain and desperation. Mexico City, the world's most populated capital city, perhaps also is the most dehumanized, where the animal and the human join in a combination with irrevocable results.