Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (“The Revenant”) attended the Venice Film Festival this Thursday (1/9) to screen his latest work, “Bardo”, developed for Netflix. Accustomed to making films for the big screen, the production will mark Iñárritu’s first experience with streaming.
However, the director says he doesn’t see many differences between the two exhibition formats and explained that “you can’t go against the grain”. For him “a film is a film”. In this sense, streaming would be “only a medium”. “A cathedral for cinema. It is a place where children are born”, he compared him, during the press conference.
Iñárritu also recalled that most of the films are seen at home. “When I was studying cinema, in addition to exhibitions and festivals, I saw Bergman, Buñuel and Fellini films on poor quality TV and on VHS,” he said.
Iñárritu’s first Mexican production since “Amores Brutos” (2000), the film, whose full name is “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”, was written by Iñárritu himself in collaboration with Nicolás Giacobone (screenwriter of “Birdman”). .
The plot tells the story of a famous Mexican journalist who returns home and goes through an existential crisis. While struggling with his family relationships, memories of him and the history of his country, he looks to his past for answers to reconcile who is in the present.
The director pointed out that the film is inspired by his own experience of being estranged from his home country. It has been more than 20 years since his family left Mexico to move to Los Angeles, exactly on September 1st.
“For me, Mexico has become a state of mind, it is no longer just a country,” he noted. “Every country is ultimately a state of mind. The stories about ourselves have been told to us. But when you move away from that place and with the passage of time, that state of mind dissolves and changes. And that was part of it. of the research that this film takes care of. The interpretation of that desire “.
He added that returning to the country was like “standing in front of the mirror” and “rediscovering a friend” who was totally different from what he remembered.
In addition to screenings in Venice and a few other festivals, “Bardo” will also be released in theaters in Mexico (opening October 27) and in the United States (November 4), before arriving on Netflix on December 16.
“It’s something I really appreciate. Not only have I been supported and left totally free, but them [a Netflix] they have been extremely generous in letting people see this movie in a movie theater, “he said.” This is something particularly important to me and it’s a great gesture from Netflix. Because I think this is a film that belongs to that kind of experience. “
“Bardo” is Iñárritu’s first feature film in seven years, since “The Revenant” (2015), which won the Oscar for Best Picture. Netflix hasn’t revealed any footage from the film yet.
Source: Terra
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