Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2022)

[yoloswegmaster]

Alejandro G. Iñárritu Set To Write & Direct New Film With Bradford Young as the DP

[Never Cursed]

A user at the AwardsWorthy forum linked this Mexican newspaper article, which describes camera tests done with Iñárritu and Young present, along with lots of imagery from Mexican TV shows from the 70s and 80s

[Never Cursed]

Iñárritu's next film, tentatively titled Limbo, has begun a supposed five-month shoot in Mexico City with a tentative plan to release the film late this year. Daniel Giménez Cacho is the lead of a supposedly ensemble cast, and Darius Khondji has replaced Bradford Young as cinematographer.

[Never Cursed]

Production on Limbo, which was apparently extremely arduous, has wrapped

[Never Cursed]

Limbo now titled, uh, Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

I'll say this for it, it doesn't have the same issue as the original title (it would've been the third feature film in as many years to be released under that title).

[therewillbeblus]

I realize this is my OCD talking, but it bothers me that Iñárritu is not being consistent with his placement of the word "or" between his two single-B-word-followed-by-bloated-parentheses titled films

[black&huge]

He should just call it "False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths". What does he think he is, an artist?

[The Narrator Returns]

Perhaps this could be its own false chronicle of a handful of truths, but there's a tweet going around saying that AGI ignored COVID protocols left and right making Bardo and "is about to be sued by large swaths of the crew".

[Ribs]

World of Reel is alleging that the main impetus for the suit is multiple crew members who contracted COVID on set… and died from it. Which seems extremely severe and it’s hard to see how it could be defended.

[swo17]

The crew on the film painstakingly worked overtime hours, in crowded places and the nastiest bit of it all has many of them being forced to show up on-set with symptoms.

Yikes

[Big Ben]

Boy I thought the shit John Landis pulled on the Twilight Zone was bad. Forcing people to show up to work even when sick with COVID is downright messed up.

[domino harvey]

Is there any actual reputable source reporting this? Zero surprise FilmTwitter wants this to be true

[swo17]

Not that I can see. Though one of the first things I found in an internet search was that he apparently donated a bunch of money last year for COVID relief to the very same kind of workers. Which is, like, the opposite of killing them

[Never Cursed]

Bardo has been bought by Netflix and will have a theatrical rollout in time for awards season. Interestingly, it was shot in 65mm.

...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.

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[domino harvey]

I hope this silences the smear campaign. After the last couple weeks I doubt Netflix would be pursuing anything that could give them another black eye in the press

[beamish14]

Bardo has been bought by Netflix and will have a theatrical rollout in time for awards season. Interestingly, it was shot in 65mm.

...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.

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Fingers crossed it becomes Netflix’s second feature to receive 70mm prints

[yoloswegmaster]

Poster for the film:

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According to this tweet, AGI is going to be the film's Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, and Composer.

[Never Cursed]

The film also has a bit of an oddball release schedule:

Mexican wide release: October 27
Limited release in the US, Spain, and Argentina: November 4
Global wide release: November 18
Streaming: December 16

[yoloswegmaster]

A first look at some footage for Bardo. Looks to be another technical marvel, as if anyone would be surprised by that.

[Persona]

Not feeling those shots, compositionally and otherwise. Very awkward framing with an excessively digital look, though I presume that that's probably what Inarritu and Khondji are going for as those two know what they're doing on the technical side of things.

[Mr Sausage]

He likes these faux 18th-century novel titles.

[yoloswegmaster]

The film had its premiere today, and to what I'm sure is not a surprise to many people, it has received very mixed reviews.

I know that Iñárritu has a sizable, and very vocal, population of detractors, so I'm sure this pleases them but this strangely makes me even more excited for the film. Though I will say that some of negative tweets have made me laugh, like the last sentence of this tweet.

[Never Cursed]

This movie could be complete dogshit and I would still hope that it wins Best Director just to piss off Film Twitter. Most of the negative hot takes just seem to be variations on "I don't get it" or "It's too long," neither of which inspire confidence in their veracity (like the atrocious Deadline review, which devotes maybe 1/5 of its space to discussing the actual quality of the film in question)

[knives]

Or, “I don’t like it because AGI is pretentious.”