Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

2022 [SPANISH]

Comedy / Drama

20
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 16270 16.3K

mexico midlife crisis journalism surrealism hollywood los angeles, california

Plot summary

A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.

Director

Alejandro González Iñárritu Photo
Alejandro González Iñárritu

Top cast

Daniel Giménez Cacho Photo
Daniel Giménez Cacho as Silverio
Montserrat Marañon Photo
Montserrat Marañon as Marta
Grantham Coleman Photo
Grantham Coleman as CNN Reporter
Omar Leyva Photo
Omar Leyva as LAX Official
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1.44 GB
1280*536
Spanish 2.0
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24 fps
2 hr 39 min
Seeds 6
2.94 GB
1920*804
Spanish 5.1
NR
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by fwhichard-344-426261 8 / 10

A Reflection on a Life Luved

After finishing this film, I sit in an empty theater, reflecting on what I have seen. The essence of this deeply personal message floating just under the surface of the film is complex. What should I think? Or more important, what should I feel?I can only answer as a man who has lived over 60 years. I witnessed many "shared" moments in the film, images and memories where I look back on my life and either smile or shed a tear.The beauty in this film lies in its "truth" which to me is the honest self reflection on a life spent. We all only have a certain amount of life to spend. No do overs. So when we all approach the waning moments of our lives, we look back on those little life pleasures, the painful moments, and the regrets we all have.And the TRUTH of our own individual lives flashes before us all.
Reviewed by gustavojensen-98259 7 / 10

direction and photography 10, but script without arch that only talks about itself left something to be desired

We have a fiction, about Silvério ( Daniel Chimenez Cacho ) a professional with a high journalistic and documentary degree who was born in Mexico and had his success and successful reputation in the USA where he raised his family. SILVERIO struggles with his weight in conscience and various internal psychological problems such as living outside his country and what his countrymen will think of him, the loss of a child who died after childbirth and the lack of paternal presence towards his other two children .We don't need much effort to notice that it is a life-based fiction ( or at least the way of thinking that the director wanted to pass us...) from INARRITU . I will not put myself affirming or failing to affirm something about his life or the way he wanted to represent , or even have a pre-concept of everything I read about his personality but we cannot clearly say in a slightly more technical and less particular and personal way about the work.We recently watched ROMA streaming platform, a film by his compatriot ALFONSO CUARON where we have a work that is very, or completely, about the director's childhood in his homeland, so we couldn't help comparing them . In "Rome" we have everything well defined, the struggle and difficulties of a domestic worker in Mexico in the 70s, here we have several mini themes , but that are the point of view of inarrutu, but do not evolve, it is only placed in the film in a critical and ambiguous way at the same time. Everything here is about Mexico, starting with the cast and technical team ... criticism of American Capitalism, where they even talk about the purchase of part of Mexico by the Amazon company, later we saw that certain employed Mexicans cannot enjoy their own land...Criticism of the treatment given to Mexican emigrants .... criticism of the new sensationalist format of critics and journalists where what matters is likes and not the content... we also have about the history of Mexican colonization and the values of the Central American people and the futilities of the North American.To summarize it looks like a script that does not evolve , the story ( and a very long story ) sometimes gets tiring but all these themes are found at the end, as there is a great editing work , where in the beginning until intentionally everything is played almost randomly: politics, paternity, family, work ... The upper part of the film, are the beautiful and beautiful photography techniques, each very well thought out plan that would certainly give a painting in our living room , engraved with lenses a wide angle puts us in the film as if it were a dream, with distortions at the edges looking like it was recorded with an action cam.We could certainly have a complete work of art if we had a script with an arch and not just a director wanting to talk about himself all the time , and showing its truths, some things could be cut that the intention would remain the same in 120 minutes, but we cannot fail to recognize the direction and especially the photograph , those do fill your eyes .
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