BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) on Netflix
Silverio Gama, a Mexican documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, is chosen for a prestigious American journalism award. A trip back to Mexico pushes him toward an existential limit.
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Plot summary
Silverio Gama is a Mexican journalist who became a documentary filmmaker and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Lucía, and their son, Lorenzo. His newest project, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, is docufiction with autobiographical elements. He and Lucía keep the ashes of Mateo, their first son, who lived one day, and the loss is one they have not moved past. Silverio learns he will receive a prestigious American award for journalism, the first Latin American so honored, and he tries to handle the scrutiny that follows in his home country.
Cast
- Luis Couturieras Papá
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Iñárritu kept editing Bardo after its Venice premiere: the version shown at San Sebastián in late September 2022, without credits, ran 152 minutes, 22 minutes shorter than the Venice and Telluride cut.
- Cinematographer Darius Khondji paired the large-format Alexa 65 camera with Panavision Sphero lenses, shooting almost the whole of Bardo on the 17mm and 21mm lenses.
- On March 4, 2021, while Bardo was shooting in the historic center of Mexico City, a passerby was arrested for striking a member of the production's security team.
