Monos (2019)

Directed by

Alejandro Landes

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Colombia, Argentina, Germany, Uruguay

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 446 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Teenage soldiers in an unidentified mountainous region guard a hostage. The group struggles with discipline and their own savage impulses as their remote outpost begins to fall apart.

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What happens

Monos is a 2019 internationally co-produced war drama film directed by Alejandro Landes, written by Landes and Alexis Dos Santos and produced by Fernando Epstein, Santiago Zapata, Cristina Landes and Landes himself. It stars Julianne Nicholson and Moisés Arias. The film follows a group of teenage soldiers assigned to watch over a hostage. This film was released in the United States on September 13, 2019, by Neon and Participant, receiving positive reviews from critics. The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on 26 January 2019, where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award. It was selected as the official Colombian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards and the Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film at the 34th Goya Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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