the Revenant Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu has traveled an exciting path during his career, especially in terms of storytelling. Although he relied heavily on the structure of choral films in his early days, his first three films all exploring several destinies intersecting due to an accident, he was however already trying to vary this narrative model: … Read more
He had wanted to take a step back from his career after his best director Oscar obtained for the Revenant (2015). Alejandro González Iñarritu 59, breaks the silence with his new feature film with the enigmatic title, bardo, false chronicle of some truths, available on Netflix Friday. The story of Silverio, Mexican journalist and documentary … Read more
The film presented at the Venice Film Festival piles up the ingredients of the tormenting “what am I doing here? how did I get there? and now how can I continue?” It cut 15 minutes, from the 174 we saw at the Venice Exhibition. 15 minutes of living flesh, scissored from his “most personal film”: … Read more
Alexander González Mike Marsland/WireImage At Netflix Bardo, false chronicle of a handful of truths, Daniel Giménez Cacho plays Silverio Gama, a renowned documentary filmmaker who is set to receive a prestigious award for his career as a journalist when he returns to his native Mexico after living with his family in Los Angeles for decades. … Read more
He is captivating and boring at the same time, he has brilliant ideas and a moment later Fellini-style déjà-vu. She needed a good scissoring. But on the other hand, life, even for directors, is cruel: the years pass, sooner or later the moment comes for the “more personal” film. The clues were not very reassuring: … Read more
Presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2022, Bardo, or false crónica de unas cuantas verdades it is an immersion of almost three hours in the overflowing poetics of Alejandro González Iñárritu, here suspended halfway between immoderate and engulfing Fellinisms and Sorrentinisms. Comedy, drama, reality, dream, personal and artistic-intellectual history, Mexico and the United … Read more