Watch Beatriz at Dinner For Free

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This is an amazing movie. This is the movie about a "healer." Her car breaks down in one of her clients ritz neighborhood, so she stays for dinner. She finds she is face to face with her arch-nemesis; and she is a true hero. This movie is so gentle and soothing to watch, while underneath you know...you know your heart is racing. This movie is so amazing that it stands up for some many human and animal rights movements you will have to stop to count them; but it does so in a peaceful manner with punch to the gut. Selma Hayek is amazing and beautiful inside and out...you want to be her best friend...you want to join her... BRAVO BRAVO!!!!

I did not expect this movie to be so absorbing or to take on such a compelling subject. Salma Hayek has delivered some emotive performances but maybe nothing quite as personally intense as she gives here. No movie can please everyone and this one won't change that but, for the sensitive viewer, it certainly should offer quite a bit to contemplate. Mike White's script effectively studies the differences between those who have much (like, way more than they need) and those who care dearly for what little they have. Performances are uniformly good and some have tried to draw comparisons between Trump, and the character of the high-profile building developer played by John Lithgow but, any number of ultra-rich opportunists fit this image, including the Clinton's and Obama's of this world - so I can't buy that interpretation whatever.Miguel Arteta's direction keeps these observations on track while the strikingly stylish imagery delivered by director of photography Wyatt Garfield, is nothing short of poetic (no cheap handheld shots to spoil this potent character study) Lovely descriptive music, scored by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh (mixed with other compositions) adds just the right touch for this thoughtful examination of a group of self-obsessed business people - meeting for dinner & playing the 'relationship' game (spelt big $) along with an outsider who wears her heart on her sleeve, and calls these deals out for what she feels they are. The ending is somewhat ambiguous and I felt the story deserved a little better - did the writer not have the courage to take on today's business ethics or is this just another example of the now trendy --woman on the verge theme-- currently popular with movie makers? Some aspects of this story brought to mind another compelling 'dinner' film: "Wetherby" from '85, written by David Hare. Beatriz' is well worth watching and even deserves to be revisited. Some language here and there.

I agree with some of the other reviewers that found this awful. However, I will add that reviewers that use a movie to take a swipe at whatever their opposing political views are, are as idiotic as this movie was. If you want to see a good offbeat film about a ticking time bomb of a dinner guest waiting to go off, maybe try "Krisha". Back to "Beatrice". Paper thin stereotypes of wealthy people who got wealthy by raping and pillaging the land and a very superficial 'new age' type personality (Hayek) who apparently, despite her age of aquarius loving nature, does not apparently know how to comport herself as an invited dinner guest. Even if some of those guests don't necessarily hold the same world view as herself. I mean, No one would act the way she does...unless they were totally psychotic! She didn't come off as a drinking type or pot smoker type. So was that used as some sort of really cheap excuse for her acting how she did? Who wrote this crap??, lol Personally, no matter how much the host begged, I wouldn't accept the invitation to dine at a dinner party...especially business related. Just way too awkward and uncomfortable. However if it was just a normal family dinner, that'd be ok. In short, her whole behavior was absurd. Especially the end. So stupid, lol. The only thing I did get from this movie is how tiny Hayek appears to be.

Beatriz (Salma Hayek) is an environmentalist and new age masseuse. She goes into a gated community to work on rich client Kathy (Connie Britton). Kathy gushes over her due to her work with Kathy's cancer-strickened daughter. It's been a bad time for Beatriz. Someone had killed her beloved goat. After her car breaks down, Kathy invites her to the dinner party that night. Beatriz gets into a rolling argument with the main guest, rich arrogant land developer Doug Strutt (John Lithgow). Her family was devastated when a hotel developer moved into her Mexican village. She objects to his big game hunting and her callous treatment of the environment.This is an interesting little indie of a committed leftist dropped in the middle of the privileged crowd. There is a good little conflict. Lithgow is unrepentant and I really like his "we're all dying" take on the world. I want more of that from writer Mike White. In the end, there is little more of 75 minutes of actual screen time. The movie is begging for more with Hayek and Lithgow. They could have had a free-wheeling debate. Instead, it goes for the cheap kill and forgets it with a dream reversal. This movie goes halfway done the road and then it pulls over to the side of the road before reaching its true destination.