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Menem: The President Show is a fictionalized chronicle of Carlos Menem, the flamboyant and divisive figure who dominated Argentine politics. The series recounts his improbable ascent from provincial governor to the nation’s highest office during the turbulent late 1980s.

This is not a staid political history. It is a high-energy dramedy that views a nation’s fate through a pop-culture lens, approaching its subject with a cocktail of humor, absurdity, and kinetic force. The narrative drops viewers into a period of national desperation, with hyperinflation gutting the economy and the public hungry for a savior.

Menem emerges as that unconventional figure, a populist who understood that raw charisma could be a potent political tool. The show immediately frames its central subject as a master seducer, a man who courted the masses with the same flair he applied to his personal life, blurring the line between political leadership and pure spectacle.

Menem: The President Show is a political drama on Prime Video that fictionalizes Argentina’s tumultuous 1990s under Carlos Saúl Menem. Starring Leonardo Sbaraglia and Juan Minujín, the series is set in Buenos Aires and La Rioja. In this article, we’ll break down the plot, cast, locations, streaming details and why this history-packed drama matters.

About the Plot:

The six-episode series tracks the fictional journey of a La Rioja family entwined with Menem’s rise and fall. As Argentina shifts to a dollar-pegged economy and privatizes state assets, the family benefits—but also faces growing tensions. The show explores the emotional fallout of economic reforms, the terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires, and the tragic death of Menem’s son, all set against one of Argentina’s most dramatic political eras. It balances personal stories with sweeping national events, showing how power and policy reshape lives at every level.

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Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton y la propia Wilde protagonizarán la comedia. © Getty Images

Según ha anunciado Variety, el tercer largometraje de Olivia Wilde, después de No te preocupes, querida y Súper empollonas, será The Invite, una provocativa comedia inspirada en la española Sentimental de 2020, adaptada por Rashida Jones y Will McCormack (Celeste & Jesse Forever), que protagonizará un reparto hollywoodiense de lujo: Seth Rogen (The Studio), Penélope Cruz (Volver), Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown) y la propia Wilde.

La película original, dirigida por Cesc Gay, fue todo un éxito en España y estuvo nominada a varios premios Goya. En ella, una pareja invita a sus vecinos a su casa, lo que desencadena una noche llena de giros inesperados, emociones reprimidas y una sexualidad inexplorada. El elenco lo conformaban Javier Cámara, Belén Cuesta, Griselda Siciliani y Alberto San Juan.

Sentimental ha sido adaptada en numerosas ocasiones en varios países, incluidos Italia,...

Olivia Wilde has secured her spot as one of the most interesting female directors following her directorial debut in 2019 with the critically acclaimed Booksmart. Her sophomore project, 2022's Don't Worry Darling, was covered in controversy and critically panned, but was still a hit with the audience and a commercial success.

With several other projects as director on the way, Wilde has a brand-new film: the date night comedy The Invite. Per Variety, her new movie is inspired by the Spanish film Sentimental.The Invite will also reunite her with Seth Rogen after working together on The Studio, and the two will star alongside Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton.

Sentimental, which was officially marketed as The People Upstairs, was released in 2020. It had Cesc Gay at the helm, and starred Javier Cámara, Griselda Siciliani, Belén Cuesta, and Alberto San Juan. The movie was nominated for several awards, including five Goya Awards.

What I appreciate about Netflix is that it will give us a show with a 40-year-old female protagonist like it’s no big deal, but if that show is unoriginal and practically crap, I don’t know what to do with myself. In all honesty, Envious is almost like Emily in Paris, but it’s Emily in her 40s, and she’s an Argentinian interior designer in Buenos Aires. What I’m trying to say is if I had to rank obnoxious lead female characters, Emily and Vicky might be fighting for that number one spot. I’m not opposed to a dramatic character arc and a character who is sure of herself, because you best believe that’s me, but this show is relentless at showing the lead character as someone who just doesn’t get the hint. Vicky’s covetous behavior only makes us as the viewer more...

Buenos Aires – Mafalda, the beloved and wily six-year-old drawn into acclaim by celebrated Argentine artist Quino, will bring her socially-conscious hijinks to the screen. News of the adaptation, which will be ushered in by Oscar-winner Juan José Campanella, was announced Monday evening as Netflix unveiled their 2024 ‘Made in Argentina’ slate to a spirited crowd of industry and media professionals.

Campanella will direct, produce and showrun the project, while Gastón Gorali co-pens and acts as general producer of the Netflix Original series and Sergio Fernández boards as production director. Netflix and Campanella and Gorali’s Mundoloco CGI, the studio behind “Metegol,” the largest Latin American animated production to date, produce.

“Mafalda and her friends not only made me laugh a lot, but from time to time, they sent me to the dictionary. And each new word I learned came with the reward of a new laugh,” Campanella revealed in a July statement.

Rest in Peace is an Argentine thriller film starring Joaquín Furriel and Griselda Siciliani. It is written by Marcos Osorio Vidal and directed by Sebastián Borensztein.

“Rest in Peace” is a thriller that works: founded on compelling performances, a script that knows which buttons to push and when, and a clear vision of the story it wants to tell and how.

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A man plagued by debts decides to vanish. Years later, he returns to confront his past and his family life.

Rest in Peace Film Review of “Rest in Peace”

“Rest in Peace” is, first and foremost, a film that rests on the foundation of a strong script determined to tell its story and, while employing many elements of a thriller, doesn’t insist on being a Hollywood-style thriller. The film expertly creates intrigue, plays the part of a suspense movie but also manages to stay within the realm of drama,...

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Review — Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, written by Nicolás Giacobone and Alejandro G. Iñárritu and starring Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Luis Couturier, Andres Almeida, Clementia Guadarrama, [...]

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“There is nothing to understand, there’s a lot to feel,” declares Alejandro G. Iñárritu about his ambitious and deeply personal new film “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” For our recent webchat he adds, “If you want to understand, there’s nothing to understand, just shut up your mind and let yourself go, and go with the dream. When people do that, they use art to be transported. That’s how cinema started in the first place. Then narrative and storytelling was added to the equation, but it’s not necessarily the only possibility of cinema,” he explains. “This is not an autobiography. This is a fictionalized exercise, a very personal and intimate experience to get us into this labyrinthine way that our memory works,” he notes, adding that he “wanted to establish that this was a journey in the mental landscape of a character that is navigating between truth and fiction.

After two multiple Oscar winners in quick succession – Birdman and The Revenant – we’ve had to wait seven years for a feature from Alejandro G. Iñárritu. That wait ends this week, with the arrival of Bardo on Netflix. And it’s probably his most personal film to date.

To give the film its full title, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, is an epic journey through the memories of journalist and filmmaker Silverio Gama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) as he returns to his home country of Mexico to confront his own identity, his relationships with his family as well as the history and likely future of his nation. Mixing emotion and comedy and sprinkled with nostalgia, it takes on universal themes such as success, mortality and family bonds. In other words, what it means to be human in today’s world.

Related: The Bardo director & cast on the red...

Few films released in 2022 make a bolder visual statement than “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths).” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s sprawling film about an acclaimed documentarian returning to his hometown in Mexico to receive an award has captivated audiences with its unapologetically surreal images since premiering at the Venice International Film Festival in September.

It begins with a newborn baby asking to be inserted back into his mother’s womb, and only gets crazier from there, as Iñárritu attempts to make sense of life and art while looking for meaning in a world that can seem devoid of it.

To discuss bringing such a singular artistic vision to life, the film’s stars Daniel Giménez Cacho and Ximena Lamadrid, production designer Eugenio Caballero, and supervising sound editor and sound designer Martín Hernandez joined IndieWire’s Eric Kohn for a panel at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch.

Daniel Giménez Cacho as Silverio in Bardo: False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths. Photo: Netflix They say write what you know, and filmmakers have been mining their personal lives for inspiration since the start of the art form. Alejandro G. Iñárritu is the latest to craft a thinly fictionalized...

Indie distributor Utopia, currently in theaters with Holy Spider, anticipates music documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom will be its biggest weekend opening to date.

It’s holding onto numbers for Sunday from one-night premieres this past week in LA at the Fonda and in NY at Webster Hall with live performances by The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Wah Together and special guests Tim Heidecker and Jim Jarmusch. This weekend, the event film by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, co-produced by Vice, Xtr and Pulse Films, opens at the IFC Center and Los Feliz with multiple shows sold out. Films and presales speak “to the growing 2000s nostalgia, but also the iconic impact of the bands featured in the film and their continued artistry and output,” said marketing chief Kyle Greenberg.

This early 2000s NYC indie rock scene immersion acquired out of Sundance expands to 150 screens Nov. 8 for one-night engagements...

For the first time since 2015's "The Revenant," Alejandro González Iñárritu is back behind the camera. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker, who's taken home directing trophies for both the Leonardo DiCaprio survival thriller and 2014's trippy, Michael Keaton-led dark comedy "Birdman," returns with the Netflix film "Bardo." The movie's full title is actually "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths," and Iñárritu serves as not just director of the project, but also writer, producer, and editor.

Now, "Bardo" has a new trailer, and the film that premiered at Venice looks like a surreal, gorgeous, and potentially somewhat inscrutable work of art. This stunning but disorienting trailer doesn't exactly explain what's going on in this movie, but the film's official synopsis makes its plot a little more explicit. Apparently, the film tells the story of "Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles." After being named...

"We think we're from several places when in fact… we're from nowhere." Who are we, where are we, why are we? Some of the questions Iñárritu tries to explore in this. Netflix has debuted a second official trailer for the film by Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu titled Bardo. This premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and also stopped by London (read our review), opening in select theaters first early next month. The films follows a renowned Mexican journalist & documentary filmmaker who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his own identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories. It's essentially an autobiographical film about Iñárritu's life and his many questions about everything - his connection to Mexico and his family and so much more. Shot on gorgeous 65mm by Academy Award-nominee Darius Khondji. Iñárritu's Bardo stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as "Silverio", with Griselda Siciliani,...

The second trailer for Alejandro G. Inarritu‘s red-hot Oscar contender “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” just dropped. Netflix is releasing the film theatrically in Mexico on October 27, followed by the US, Spain and Argentina on November 4, and globally on November 18. The film will start streaming on Netflix on December 16.

This wide-screen epic is set in the 1980s and follows the journey of Silverio Gama, a ex-pat Mexican journalist and filmmaker living in L.A., back to his native country to collect an award. He is beset by both memories and fears as he makes his way home. Acclaimed Mexican actor Daniel Giménez Cacho is Silverio and Argentine’s leading lady Griselda Siciliani plays his wife. Iñárritu co-wrote the screenplay with his pal Nicolás Giacobone; they shared in an Oscar for scripting “Birdman” back in 2016.

That film, which won Best Picture, also brought Iñárritu the first of...

Film to get theatrical releases in Mexico, US ahead of Netflix December debut.

Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Bardo has been selected as Mexico’s submission for the international feature film Oscar category.

The film, full title Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths, premiered at Venice FIlm Festival and will open theatrically in Mexico on October 27 and in the US on November 4 ahead of a December 16 platform debut.

The film is Inarritu’s first to shoot entirely in his native Mexico since his 2000 breakout Amores Perros.

Bardo stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as Silverio Gama, a jaded Mexican journalist and...

Film to get theatrical releases in Mexico, US ahead of Netflix December debut.

Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Bardo has been selected as Mexico’s submission for the international feature film Oscar category.

The film, full title Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths, premiered at Venice FIlm Festival and will open theatrically in Mexico on October 27 and in the US on November 4 ahead of a December 16 platform debut.

The film is Inarritu’s first to shoot entirely in his native Mexico since his 2000 breakout Amores Perros.

Bardo stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as Silverio Gama, a jaded Mexican journalist and...

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Mexico has selected Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths as its official contender for the 2023 Academy Awards in the best international feature category.

The epic comedy, which also marks Iñárritu’s first Mexican feature since his 2000 breakout Amores Perros, will be released in theaters starting on Oct. 27, before dropping on Netflix on Dec. 16.

Daniel Giménez Cacho plays Silverio Gama, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, returns to his native country. But he’s unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit sparked by family relationships, questions of cultural identity and changes to the country of his birth.

Iñárritu is no stranger at the Academy Awards, as the Mexican filmmaker already won the best director Oscar for Birdman...

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Trailer — Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths trailer stars Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, and Iker Solano. Crew Alejandro G. Iñárritu [...]

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Netflix has just dropped a brand-new official trailer for legendary filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu's latest film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. The film just premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival and received between a four and six minute standing ovation. Bardo tells the story of a famous Mexican journalist who faces his own existentialism when he comes back to his native country after winning a prestigious award. Bardo stars Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, and Francisco Rubio.

And here we go… Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for the highly anticipated, already controversial new film from Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu titled Bardo. This premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival earlier this month to mixed reviews, and opens in theaters first for a month before landing on Netflix for streaming. The films follows a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his own identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories. It's essentially an autobiographical film about Iñárritu's life and his many questions about everything - his connection to Mexico and his family and so much more. Shot on gorgeous 65mm by Academy Award-nominee Darius Khondji. The film marks Iñárritu's first film to be shot in Mexico since 2000's international sensation Amores Perros. Bardo stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as "Silverio", with Griselda Siciliani,...

Set to the tune of the Beatles classic “I Am the Walrus,” a new trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo — full title: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — dropped today, giving viewers a taste of what Venice festgoers experienced this month.

The film received six minutes of applause in its three-hour world premiere on September 2 at the Venice Film Festival. The director has cut 22 minutes of the film since then, bringing the runtime to about 2½ hours.

Venice Review: Alejandro G Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo’

Written by Iñárritu and Nicolás Giacobone, Bardo is billed as a nostalgic comedy set against an epic personal journey. It chronicles the story of a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories as well as the past of his country, all the while...

Alejandro González Iñárritu has released the first trailer for his Netflix Oscar contender “Bardo” — and the entire movie is now 22 minutes shorter.

The Mexican filmmaker and two-time best director winner’s eighth film, “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths),” premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival. After screening at Venice and Telluride, Iñárritu went back into the edit room and cut down 22 minutes from the film, bringing its runtime to two hours and 32 minutes, without credits.

“The first time I saw my film was with 2,000 people in Venice,” Iñárritu told IndieWire. “That was a nice opportunity to see it and learn about things that could benefit from being tied up a bit, add one scene that never arrived on time, and move the order of one or two things. Little by little, I tightened it, and I am very excited about it.”

Reviews for the film have been mixed,...

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The American Film Institute’s Los Angeles-based film festival AFI Fest has revealed this year’s crop of red carpet galas including films from Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro, Maria Schrader and Florian Zeller.

As previously announced, AFI Fest will open with the world premiere of Apple’s Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me on Nov. 2 and close four days later with the U.S. premiere of Universal Pictures’ and Amblin Entertainment’s The Fabelmans from Steven Spielberg.

Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, which will screen Nov. 3, centers on Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles who returns to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit. Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid and Iker Solano star in the film.

On Nov. 4, notable journalist,...

The Film Circuit begins with Telluride, a small but perfect film festival in the mountains of Colorado as simultaneously Venice unfurls the films that will soon be released in the wonderful arthouse cinemas of Europe, followed closely by Toronto whose films foretell the coming year’s Oscars nominees. It is a very exciting time to be on the festival circuit.

And simultaneously with these great screenings are sidebars, panel discussions, workshops, master classes and all around great networking for filmmakers around the world.

Venezia 79 Competition

Il Signore Delle Formiche

Director Gianni Amelio

Main Cast Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco / Italy / 134’

The Whale

Director Darren Aronofsky

Main Cast Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins / USA / 117’

White Noise

Director Noah Baumbach

Main Cast Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger / USA / 136’

L’IMMENSITÀ

Director Emanuele Crialese

Main Cast Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni / Italy, France / 97’

Saint Omer

Director Alice Diop

Main Cast Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit / France / 123’

Blonde

Director Andrew Dominik

Main Cast Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher / USA / 166’

TÁR

Director Todd Field

Main Cast Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong / USA / 158’

Love Life

Director Kôji Fukada

Main Cast Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada / Japan, France / 123’

Bardo, Falsa CRÓNICA De Unas Cuantas Verdades

Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Main Cast Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio / Mexico / 174’

Athena

Director Romain Gavras

Main Cast Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti / France / 97’

Bones And All

Director Luca Guadagnino

Main Cast Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jake Horowitz / USA / 130’

The Eternal Daughter

Director Joanna Hogg

Main Cast Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies / UK, USA / 96’

Shab, Dakheli, Divar (Beyond The Wall)

Director Vahid Jalilvand

Main Cast Navid Mohammadzadeh, Diana Habibi, Amir Aghaee / Iran / 126’

The Banshees Of Inisherin

Director Martin McDonagh

Main Cast Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan / Ireland, UK, USA / 109’

Argentina, 1985

Director Santiago Mitre

Main Cast Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski / Argentina, USA / 140’

Chiara

Director Susanna Nicchiarelli

Main Cast Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio / Italy, Belgium / 106’

Monica

Director Andrea Pallaoro

Main Cast Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza, Emily Browning, Joshua Close / USA, Italy / 113’

Khers Nist (No Bears)

Director Jafar Panahi

Main Cast Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjeei, Mina Kavani, Reza Heydari / Iran / 107’

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

Director Laura Poitras

USA / 117’

Un Couple

Director Frederick Wiseman

Main Cast Nathalie Boutefeu / France, USA / 64’

The Son

Director Florian Zeller

Main Cast Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie / UK / 124’

Les Miens

Director Roschdy Zem

Main Cast Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Meriem Serbah, Maïwenn, Rachid Bouchareb, Abel Jafrei, Nina Zem / France / 85’

Les Enfants Des Autres

Director Rebecca Zlotowski

Main Cast Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira / France / 104’

Toronto is in spite of itself in a civilized sort of way in competition for the premieres with Venice, though the sequential festivals are serving different constituencies. Still, The Whale, for example is premiering in Venice and then traveling to TIFF.

TIFF Gala Presentations:

The Whale directed by Darren Aronofsky, produced and to be distributed in U.S. and actng as international sales agent A24.

TIFF says: “Brendan Fraser gives a career-defining performance in Darren Aronofsky’s arrestingly intimate drama about a reclusive English professor struggling with personal relationships and self-acceptance, adapted from the stage play by Samuel D. Hunter.”

Alice, Darling by Mary Nighy

Also playing are Alice, Darling (Mary Nighy) in which Anna Kendrick captures the anxious psychology of a woman in an abusive relationship as her friends try to reconnect with her while on a cottage getaway.

Black Ice(Hubert Davis) about Black hockey players facing systemic racism in the sport.

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly) about man’s story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam. An Apple TV+ production.

Butcher’s Crossing (Gabe Polsky) is a frontier epic about an Ivy League drop-out as he travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. Based on the highly acclaimed novel by John Williams. Isa Altitude

The Hummingbird (Francesca Archibugi)Hunt (Jung-jae Lee)A Jazzman’s Blues (Tyler Perry)Kacchey Limbu (Shubham Yogi)Moving On (Paul Weitz)Paris Memories (Alice Winocour)Prisoner’s Daughter (Catherine Hardwicke)Raymond & Ray (Rodrigo García)Roost (Amy Redford)Sidney (Reginald Hudlin)The Son (Florian Zeller)The Swimmers (Sally El Hosaini)What’s Love Got to Do With It? (Shekhar Kapur)The Woman King(Gina Prince-Bythewood)

Special PRESENTATIONSAllelujah (Sir Richard Eyre)All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)The Banshees Of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)Blueback (Robert Connolly)The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani)Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda)Brother (Clement Virgo)Bros (Nicholas Stoller)Catherine Called Birdy (Lena Dunham)Causeway (Lila Neugebauer)Chevalier (Stephen Williams)Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)Devotion (Jd Dillard)Driving (Madeleine Christian Carion)El Suplente (Diego Lerman)Empire of Light...

Bardo opens theatrically in Mexico on October 27.

Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu saluted Netflix for ensuring his latest film Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths would have a global theatrical rollout.

“The incredible thing is that now this film will be all over the theatres in Mexico and all over the world including in the US and in Spanish-speaking territories for seven weeks, and this is without precedent,” Iñárritu said at the film’s press conference at the Venice Film Festival. “I believe this is a film that really belongs in this space.”

Bardo opens theatrically in Mexico on October...

Will “Bardo” be Alejandro González Iñárritu’s third best director Oscar in a row following “Birdman” and “The Revenant” wins? It’s a question many were asking heading into the Venice Film Festival, where the Netflix-backed “Bardo” world premiered in competition.

They had plenty of time to contemplate their answer as the three-hour-film wrapped at 12:15 a.m. Venice time, and earned a standing ovation of just over four minutes at the Sala Grande. A number of audience members began leaving before the movie ended given the extremely late hour, but the vast majority showed up for the helmer and stayed to applaud him right to the bitter end.

Iñárritu was visibly moved by the reception to his film, certainly one of his most personal efforts to date, and had tears in his eyes as he embraced his cast and producers. “Bardo” is his first feature film since 2015’s “The Revenant.

“You inevitably turn into what people think you are,” someone opines a few hours (or years) into Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths),” a movie so nakedly personal in spite of its epic scope that even the most benign stray comments betray the sting of self-flagellation. And yet there’s a reason why this one manages to break the skin.

By this point in the film’s oneiric non-story, it’s already clear that Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) — a journalist turned documentarian who returns to Mexico a few days before he’s scheduled to receive a major industry award in his adopted home of Los Angeles — is a stand-in for the Oscar-winning auteur behind the camera, who’s shooting an entire movie in his birth country for the first time since “Amores Perros” catapulted him to fame 22 years ago. By the same token,...

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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first film set and shot in his native Mexico since he turned heads more than two decades ago with Amores Perros is as long and windy as its title. “It’s pretentious and pointlessly oneiric,” scoffs a fellow Mexican who has found success in crass commercialism rather than art and truth, dismissing the semi-autobiographical protagonist’s work. Iñárritu seems to be cheekily preempting his critics. However accurate you find that assessment, the epic existential comedy, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, is also a work of exacting craftsmanship, shifting with beguiling fluidity between dream and reality with ravishing visuals, shot on 65mm by the great cinematographer Darius Khondji.

At three overstuffed hours, the Netflix feature is a lot of movie. While there’s pleasure in surrendering to its languid rhythms and sinuous narrative detours — I was never...

Awards season is officially upon us when the Telluride festival lineup is announced the traditional day before the festival begins. It's a docu heavy lineup this year with notable big films from all the distribs. Without further ado, here is the program. The 49th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the Show: • Armageddon Time (d. James Gray, U.S., 2022) In person: James Gray, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway • Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico-u.S., 2022) In person: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano • Bobi Wine, Ghetto President (d. Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, Uganda-u.K., 2022) In person: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi • Bones And All (d. Luca Guadagnino,...

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The 49th annual Telluride Film Festival will host the world premiere screenings of Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” and Sebastian Lelio’s “The Wonder” – as well as North American premieres of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Bardo,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” Todd Field’s “Tar,” James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Broker” among other top fall titles.

In keeping with the Telluride Film Festival’s famously late-breaking announcement process, the 2022 lineup was revealed on Thursday morning, just one day before the prestigious festival kicks off.

Due to the nuances of how the Toronto International Film Festival positioned some of its debuts as well as the roster of features debuting at the Venice Film Festival this week, industry observers had long expected many of the 2022 titles to screen in the Colorado town. But that doesn’t make the Telluride list any less impressive in its variety.

As customary, Telluride Film Festival has unveiled its lineup on the eve of its kickoff. For its 49th edition, taking place from September 2-5, the festival features new work by James Gray, Luca Guadagnino, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Hlynur Pálmason, Todd Field, the Dardennes, Sarah Polley, Mia Hansen-Løve, Werner Herzog, and more, as well as a robust section of classics and filmmaker-related docs.

The 49th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the Show:

• Armageddon Time (d. James Gray, U.S., 2022) In person: James Gray, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway

• Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico-u.S., 2022) In person: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano

• Bobi Wine, Ghetto President (d. Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, Uganda-u.K., 2022) In person: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi

• Bones And All (d.

Telluride Film Festival’s official 2022 lineup has been announced, revealing world premieres of Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and Sebastián Lelio’s “The Wonder.”

In its 49th year, the festival will pay tribute to two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, whose new film “TÁR,” from director Todd Field, will debut stateside after premiering at the Venice Film Festival.

In addition, the festival will also tribute Academy Award nominee Polley (adapted screenplay for 2006’s “Away from Her”) and acclaimed documentarian Marc Cousins, who has two films dropping at the fest. One is “My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock,” which is based on a fictional monologue between Cousins and the master of suspense. The other is “The March on Rome,” depicting the ascent of fascism in Europe during the 1930s.

Other Venice bows heading over to the Colorado Mountains are Luca Guadagnino’s...

Alejandro González Iñárritu is having a homecoming of many sorts.

The Oscar-winning director returned to his home nation of Mexico to film upcoming feature “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” after leaving for Los Angeles exactly 20 years ago. The Netflix film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will play in movie theaters in Mexico starting October 27 before debuting in North American theaters November 4. Netflix will release the title for streaming December 16.

The special theatrical run in both nations “is something I really appreciate,” Iñárritu said during a Venice Film Festival press conference (via Deadline). “Not only because I was supported and left totally free but [Netflix] has been extremely generous in allowing people to experience this movie in a theater. This is something especially important for me and is an exceptional gesture from Netflix to me. Because I think this is a movie that belongs to this type of experience.

Alejandro González Iñárritu made a spirited appearance at the Venice Film Festival Thursday where he dismissed fears that audiences will be unable to correctly experience his latest film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths when it is released on Netflix later this year.

“My generation has seen movies by great authors and when I was studying cinema, besides exhibitions and festivals, Bergman, Bunuel, Fellini, I saw all their movies on TV with terrible quality and VHS,” Iñárritu said when asked about his film streaming.

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“If I had to go to the toilet I stopped the movie. So we are all forced to stop the screenings. But what remains is our ideas. A movie is a movie. It is just a means. A cathedral for cinema. It’s a place where children are born.”

The director continued to say that “you cannot go against the...

Netflix has recently announced the newest film from renowned director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. This will be the five-time Academy Award winner’s first film since The Revenant. The film, titled Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths features a cast including Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, and Iker Solano.

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths follows the life and career of Silverio Gama, an esteemed journalist and filmmaker who currently resides in Los Angeles. Silverio had just recently won a prestigious international award and has felt the need to return home to Mexico. However, his trip back will be a journey in more ways than one. As he is haunted by his fears and mistakes of the past, these memories start to take a toll on him and push him to his existential limit.

In a time of deep and intense self-reflection, Silverio struggles with...

Having acquired ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,’ the new film from visionary Oscar-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Netflix has debuted the first look image from the film.

The film is a nostalgic comedy set against an epic personal journey. It chronicles the story of a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories as well as the past of his country. He seeks answers in his past to reconcile who he is in the present.

Written by Iñárritu and Nicolás Giacobone. the movie is shot on 65mm and boasts striking cinematography from Academy Award-nominee Darius Khondji. It will star Daniel Giménez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani.

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Filmed in Mexico, the filmmaker is currently in post-production,...

The next film from two-time Best Director winner Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu will debut later this year on Netflix.

The streaming service announced on Wednesday that it had acquired the distribution rights for ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” Iñárritu’s first feature since he won Best Director for 2015’s “The Revenant.”

“Alejandro is one of the greatest modern filmmakers and one of the leading visionaries in our industry,” said Netflix Head of Global Film Scott Stuber in a statement. “Bardo is a cinematic experience that has inspired us to create a release strategy designed for the film to penetrate culture in the biggest and widest way. We will give film lovers everywhere the opportunity to experience the film through a global theatrical release and the film’s worldwide release on Netflix. Having known Alejandro for a long time, I am personally very excited to finally be able to...

Likely awards contender currently in post, expected to wrap by autumn.

Netflix has picked up Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths and plans a global theatrical release later this year prior to debuting on the platform

The film, which bulks up the streamer’s awards season war chest, marks the Oscar-winning Mexican auteur’s first since The Revenant in 2015 and is his first film to shoot in Mexico since his 2000 breakout Amores Perros.

The theatrical release will encompass Mexico, the US, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, the Netherlands,...

Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu will be back with a new film by the end of 2022. Netflix has acquired the “Revenant” filmmaker’s new comedy “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” for release globally in theaters and on Netflix at the end of the year.

Written by Iñárritu and Nicolás Giacobone (who previously collaborated on the Oscar-winning script for “Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance” and “Biutiful”), “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” is described as a nostalgic comedy set against an epic personal journey. It chronicles the story of a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories as well as the past of his country. He seeks answers in his past to reconcile who he is in the present.

Iñárritu shot the “deeply...

Film lovers roll up. Here’s our annual list of movies that could have festivals drooling in 2022.

Our list kicked off last year with The Power of the Dog and The Tragedy of Macbeth and also included the likes of Belfast, Benedetta, The Hand of God and A Hero. Fair to say those films all hit their mark in 2021.

With Covid disruption continuing, a number of anticipated movies on last year’s list have yet to see the light of day so some will be included again this year as their releases come into view. Most of the titles below are in post-production, a few are still filming, and some are done. None has yet to start principal photography, and none has been declared for a festival so far.

Festival organizers will have another bumper crop to choose from in 2022 — that is if their physical events are able to go ahead,...

With no official announcement, until now, as it relates to Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new feature, we were left picking up the pieces from set photos and various reports. However, we now have the first actual details on the ambitious production, which has just wrapped shooting in Mexico City.

Nodding to his Best Picture winner Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), the title for the director’s next feature is Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths). Returning to Mexico 20 years after Amores Perros there, the film is co-written by the director and Nicolás Giacobone.

Described as “a nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey,” the film tells “a chronicle of uncertainties where the main character, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, returns to his native country facing his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories as well as the past and new reality of his country.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, director of "Birdman," "The Revenant," and more, has wrapped production on his latest film. The movie has the delightfully pretentious title "Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)," and it's the filmmaker's first entirely Mexican project in 20 years. Daniel Jimenez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani star in the film, which follows a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns to his native country. 

Looks like Alejandro Iñárritu, the acclaimed filmmaker that many film lovers love to hate, already has his next feature in the can. Word was sent out today that the "Birdman" director's latest is called "Bardo (or...

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Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the director of “Birdman” and “The Revenant,” has wrapped production on his latest film called “Bardo,” it was announced Thursday.

The full title of Iñárritu’s follow-up to “The Revenant” is “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths),” and it’s described as a “nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey.”

The project returns him to his home of Mexico for the first time in 20 years after shooting his debut “Amores Perros.” “Bardo” recently wrapped production in Mexico City as part of what is an “entirely Mexican project.” Iñárritu wrote the film with and Nicolás Giacobone.

Here’s the full synopsis:

A chronicle of uncertainties where the main character, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, returns to his native country facing his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories as well as the past and new reality of his country.

“Bardo” stars Daniel...

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next movie, newly titled “Bardo (Or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths),” has completed filming in Mexico City.

The project, described as a “nostalgic comedy” set against an “epic journey,” centers on a renowned Mexican journalist and a documentary filmmaker who returns to his native country at an existential crossroads, one that leaves him questioning his identity, familial relations, the folly of his memories, as well as the past and current reality of the place he calls home. Daniel Gimenez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani will co-star in the film.

“Bardo” marks the first time in two decades — since his first feature “Amores Perros” — that Iñárritu shot and produced a film entirely in his native country of Mexico.

In addition to directing, Iñárritu co-wrote the script with Nicolás Giacobone, who previously collaborated with the filmmaker on “Biutiful” and “Birdman.” The production team includes cinematographer Darius Khondji,...

Alejandro G. Iñárritu has wrapped production in Mexico City on his next film, “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths).” The new movie is being billed by Iñárritu’s representatives as “a nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey.” The film marks Iñárritu’s feature film follow-up to the 2015 survival drama “The Revenant,” although he did return in 2017 with the acclaimed virtual installation project “Carne y Arena.” With “Bardo,” the director returned to shoot and produce a film entirely in Mexico for the first time since “Amores Perros” over 20 years ago.

An official release on “Bardo” reads: “Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Nicolás Giacobone, ‘Bardo’ is a nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey. A chronicle of uncertainties where the main character, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, returns to his native country facing his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories as well as...

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film will be titled Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), Deadline has learned. The news comes as the five-time Oscar winner wraps production in Mexico City.

The feature penned by Iñárritu and his longtime collaborator Nicolás Giacobone is billed as a nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey. A chronicle of uncertainties where the main character, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, returns to his native country to face his identity, familial relationships, and the folly of his memories, as well as the past and new reality of his country.

Daniel Jimenez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani star in the film, which marks Iñárritu’s return to his native country, 20 years after Amores Perros. Bardo comes on the heels of his Oscar winners The Revenant and Birdman, as well as his virtual installation Carne y Arena.

Oscar nominee Darius Khondji photographed the indie produced by Iñárritu, with Oscar winner Eugenio Caballero serving as production designer and Anna Terrazas as costume designer.

Check out a new behind-the-scenes image from the film, released today by the filmmaker, above.

“Nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey” expected to open in 2022.

Two-time best directing Oscar winner Alejandro G. Inarritu has wrapped production in Mexico on Bardo (Or False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths).

Screen understands the film will not get a release this year and distributors or sales agents attached to the film remained unknown at time of writing.

Five years after Inarritu earned his second consecutive best directing Oscar for The Revenant (He also won for Birdman in 2015), the Mexican auteur returns with a story based on a screenplay he co-wrote with regular collaborator Nicolas Giacobone.

It marks...

Daniel Gimenez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani nabbed the leading roles for Bardo, the latest movie from The Revenant director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

The Mexican feature, also known as False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, has just wrapped production in Mexico City. The nostalgic comedy set against an epic journey comes two decades after Iñárritu shot his first film, Amores Perros, and more recently The Revenant, Birdman and Virtual Installation Carne y Arena.

The veteran director has returned with Bardo to Mexico to produce, write and shoot the feature written with Nicolás Giacobone. Bardo offers a chronicle of uncertainties where the main character, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary ...