‘Bardo,’ Even With Netflix Backed, Will Face Oscars Climbing Uphill – The Hollywood Reporter
There are few filmmakers in the world more talented and interesting Alejandro G. Iñárrituhas the previous features – Amores Perros (2000), 21 grams (2003), Babel (2006), Nice (2010), Birdman (2014) and Avenger (2015) – was very well reviewed and was at least nominated for an Oscar. As you may recall, the Mexican filmmaker has won the Best Director Oscar for many years now, because Birdman and Avengerthe previous one also took the best picture and the second one probably came very close, cementing his place in the cinema.
But the fact that no one has ever directed films on a consistent basis – from Griffith to Hitchcock to Spielberg – has surpassed 1,000 in the eyes of critics or the Academy. It seems all but certain that Iñárritu’s latest film, Bardo — which had its global premiere at the Venice Film Festival, had its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, and released on Netflix on October 22 — will be his first to fail to impress.
Bardothe title of the profile (I’ve been asked a lot), is Not related to the 87-year-old movie legend Brigitte Bardot, which is rather a Tibetan word meaning the period between death and rebirth, tells the story of a famous genius born in Mexico, residing in the United States whose family has experienced the loss of a loved one and, in a sense, their home (they are neither fully Mexican nor fully American). However, it seems that he still has a lot of reasons to be happy (reputation and fortune, career fame, a beautiful family), but has never really felt happy.
In the Spanish-language film, the man in question is an investigative journalist and documentarian named Silverio (played by Daniel Gimenez Cacho), but with his gray beard, long sly hair, and other personality attributes, he was quite clearly modeled after Iñárritu. There are scenes in the film where Giménez Cacho looks exactly like his director, and other times when he looks like an older person. Bradley Cooper.
Like CHEAPMain film critic of David Rooney noted in his review in Venice, the film exhibits “precise craftsmanship, transitioning with captivating fluidity between dream and reality with stunning visuals, shot on 65mm by great cinematographer Darius Khondji. But the overall reaction to it has been bleak. It’s at 57% on Rotten Tomatoes, with most critics finding it too long (with a running time of just 3 hours) and pretentious (as a Silverio competitor essentially put it in). film). Even its full title, Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Few Truths)long and complicated – though just keep in mind that BirdmanThe full title of is Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Many people have compared it against Federico Fellini‘S 8 (1963), but I really think the film has achieved the most Bardo tried to achieve is Charlie Kaufmandirector’s debut Synecdoche, New York (2008).
Perhaps the most problematic for a movie that most people, including members of the Academy, will watch via their home streaming service – where it’s even easy to get distracted or just watch. a movie that doesn’t appeal to you more than it does in theaters – is that there has been a steady stream of pedestrians since its Telluride screening.
Even if Bardo is not out of the “upper” Oscar races, there is still the possibility of actually appearing in the “downstream” categories such as cinematography and production design. And I imagine it’s like that of Iñárritu Amores Perrosas well as another movie handled by Netflix, last year Prayer for the stolenit was a huge hit as Mexico entered the shortlist for the best international film Oscar.
