Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
2022
***½
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cast: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Jay O. Sanders, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio, Rubén Zamora, Mar Carrera, Diego Tello de Meneses
Silverio Gama is a Mexican documentary filmmaker who is about to receive a prestigious award in the US, his adopted home country. A return to his country of birth throws him into an existential crisis. Alejandro González Iñárritu's deeply personal drama asks what it really means to be Mexican. Like Iñárritu, Silverio is a celebrated artist who has made a career outside Mexico, and he suffers simultaneously from success guilt and imposter syndrome. This is a long, arduous, and dreamlike film, which includes aome haunting images (starting with the opening scene), which are beautifully shot by Darius Khondji.
