“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” is the new film by director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and it’s streaming on Netflix.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the film.
- Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Spanish: Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades) is a 2022 Mexican epic black comedy drama film
- It is co-written, co-composed, edited, produced, and directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- The film stars Daniel Giménez Cacho
- Alongside Griselda Siciliani
- The film follows a journalist/documentarian who returns to his native country of Mexico and begins having an existential crisis in the form of dreamlike visions
- It is Iñárritu’s first film to be fully filmed in Mexico since Amores perros in 2000
- Bardo premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion on September 1, 2022
- The film was released in theaters on November 18, 2022
- Then streamed on Netflix on December 16, 2022
- The film received mixed reviews from critics
- Critics praised the cinematography, but criticized the writing and runtime
- On March 22, 2020, it was reported that Alejandro G. Iñárritu would write, direct and produce a new film, to be shot in Mexico, Bradford Young as cinematographer, and Patrice Vermette as production designer
- On March 9, 2021, Griselda Siciliani joined the cast
- With Grantham Coleman that July
- Principal photography began on March 3, 2021 in Mexico City, with Darius Khondji as cinematographer and Eugenio Caballero as production designer
- Five months of filming were planned in other locations in the Capital and the Estudios Churubusco
- On March 4, 2021, during filming in the historic center of Mexico City, a passerby was arrested for striking a production security member
- In September 2021, it was reported that the film had completed production
- Iñárritu continued editing the film after its premiere
- The version screened at the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival in late September 2022 runs 152 minutes without credits, 22 minutes shorter than the one screened at Venice and Telluride
- The final runtime was set at 160 minutes (including credits)
- The film has received mixed reviews from critics
- With many criticizing it as self-indulgent and pretentious
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 58% rating
- Based on 121 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 6.2/10
- The website’s consensus reads, “As deeply personal as it is demanding, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths unsteadily walks the line between brilliance and sheer self-indulgence”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 53 out of 100
- Based on 34 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
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