Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)

Original title

Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades

Directed by

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Genre

drama film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

2h 54m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 266 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Mexican journalist and documentarian returns to his home country and experiences a series of strange, dreamlike visions. These visions prompt an existential crisis as he confronts his past, his identity, and his place in the world.

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What happens

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Spanish: Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades), or simply Bardo, is a 2022 Mexican epic psychological black comedy-drama film co-written, co-scored, co-edited, produced, and directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. The film stars Daniel Giménez Cacho alongside Griselda Siciliani, and follows a journalist/documentarian who returns to his native country of Mexico and begins having an existential crisis in the form of dreamlike visions. The title refers to the Buddhist concept of the bardo, a liminal state between death and rebirth. It is Iñárritu's first film to be fully filmed in Mexico since Amores perros in 2000. Bardo premiered on September 1, 2022 at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion. It was released in theaters on November 18, 2022, then streamed on Netflix on December 16, 2022. The film received polarized reviews from critics, who praised the performances, cinematography, and direction, but were divided on its writing and runtime. It was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, making the shortlist of fifteen films, but was not nominated. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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