Bardhe said Alejandro González InarrituHe didn’t do it with his head, but with his heart. And the film has all or a lot of what its fans love and its staunchest detractors hate. In times of crack, the director’s film Birdman Y the reborn – the films for which he himself has won his four Oscars, two for best director – is a new exponent of the controversy.
The plot unfolds between the unconscious and the conscious. Which is ambitious and where Iñárritu’s camera staging is sometimes, often, more prominent than the story itself, which already has enough twists and steep paths to leave traces in our unconscious.
Y Bardo, false chronicle of few truths begins as a comedy, after a shocking image with a shadow flying over the desert (first allusion to Birdman). Lucia (Sicilian Griselda), the partner of the protagonist, gives birth to Mateo, but the child refuses to be among us and wishes to return to the womb. And well, they introduce him to his mother again.
Much will change in almost three hours – the version that will debut in theaters this Thursday lasts 159 minutes, so it has been lighter than the one that competed and had its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival -, because history is not going to remain alone in the couple of Silverio and Lucía. It will focus on Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho, star of Zamakby Lucrecia Martel), a successful journalist and documentary filmmaker, who left Mexico for the United States and returns to receive an award.
Even in Los Angeles they want to reward it, just when Amazon (Netflix produces the film, and will distribute it in streaming only on December 16) plans to buy Bajo California, in Mexico, to deliver it in the United States …
The film combines dream and reality, in a rigorously elaborated script between Iñárritu and our compatriot Nicolás Giacobone. Since then, Iñárritu has never returned to shoot in Mexico loves dogs (2001). Shot with sequential footage, it includes scenes where the imagination wins over everything, with floors flooded or filled with sand, a huge pile of corpses in El Zócalo, Mexico, people crawling, another collapses and they have “disappeared” and more.
More? Hernán Cortés, allusions to the absence of the state with respect to Mexican citizens, the question of where we belong, whether where we live or where we were born and raised.
The film is González Iñárritu’s look at his life, at his existence, at the Mexico he left twenty years ago to live in the United States. Crossed or not by a crisis, the protagonist reflects, remembers and fantasizes. Just like Alfonso Cuarón made his return to Mexico Romein which he portrayed his family and his neighborhood, the director of Babel he embarks on a return journey, which perhaps places him from here on in another cinematic journey.
Nothing will ever be the same
why later Bardnothing will ever be the same for him and his audience.
Bard It is very different from anything he has filmed so far.
Narcissist? It is on the same path as other directors who needed to talk about their past, both with Fellini Amarcord or closer in time with Paolo Sorrentino the great beauty.
Bard it is like a dream, or a nightmare, a daydream in which reality and fiction blend elegantly, but perhaps too grandiose, or too grandiloquent.
“Bardo, false chronicle of few truths”
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Dramatic comedy. Mexico, 2022. 160 ‘, SAM 16. Of: Alejandro González Inarritu. With: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid. Rooms: Hoyts Abasto, Belgrano Showcase, Cinépolis Recoleta.
Source: Clarin
