Babel is a movie we've heard little about. Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as well as being written and directed by the team who brought us the film 21 Grams, you'd have thought we would have, but it's been very quiet until the release of this clip.

Over at Jo Blo they point us to the first online clip, you can choose the AOL version if you wish, but here's a much friendlier Quicktime stream.

The blurb from IMDB is quite weak:

Three stories set in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico and Japan. The story begins with a tragedy striking a married couple on vacation.

...but Jo Blo has more...

Like 21 GRAMS, the film interweaves three storylines that seem vastly different but are united by a common thread. Pitt and Blanchett play a couple who experience a tragic accident while vacationing in Morocco - their lives intersect with a Japanese teenager and her problems with her father and a Mexican nanny (Bernal) who kidnaps two American children.

Sounds interesting, and a serious outing for Pitt. I just hope because it's set in a hot country it won't be an excuse for that overly healthy man to take his top off! Seriously, it would be nice to see him pushing his acting again, and this certainly has the potential to do just that.