Alejandro González Iñárritu (“The Revenant”) has a new film with “Bardo” Um was he getting there? And clear: an Iñárritu himself!
Alejandro González Iñárritu won the Academy Award for Best Director twice for Birdman (o (The unexpected power of ignorance) and for The avenger with Leonardo DiCaprio. The 59-year-old Mexican is officially one of the best directors of our time, and he has now made a new film, one of those that can only be financed with two Oscars behind him: “Bardo, the invented chronicle of a fistful of truths” is the first film , the Iñárritu he’s been touring his homeland since his first hit “Amores Perros” (2000), and he’s: Yes, but he talks a lot about himself.
The main character is an alter ego and a lookalike Alejandro González Iñárritu: The famous Mexican journalist and documentary maker Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) lives in America and returns to his native Mexico after winning a major award. There he experiences an existential crisis, in hallucinations and dreams he is confronted with his origins, his identity, the history and present of Mexico and its past and present …
The Netflix production is now playing in select theaters and can be seen on the streaming service from 16 December.
