BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS

SCREENING + SPOTLIGHT & PRESENTATION OF THE MVFF AWARD FOR ACTING

FRIDAY, OCT. 14 • 6:00 | SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER

DANIEL GIMÉNEZ CACHO

Actor, director, and social activist, Daniel has worked with legendary directors like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu. Some of his most notable projects include El Callejón De Los Milagros, Profundo Carmesí, La Mala Educación, Arráncame La Vida, Los Adioses, Siberia, and Sopladora De Hojas, among others. With a career spanning over 30 years, he holds five Ariel Awards. He recently presented his book Daniel Giménez Cacho, Les Juro Que Yo No Soy Así, written by Roberto Fiesco. 2022 will see Daniel starring in the premiere of Bardo, a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

The MVFF Spotlight program honors and celebrates exceptional work by film artists in their most current work.

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BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS

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Mexico, 2022, 174 min, Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Named for the Buddhist concept of a transitional state between death and rebirth, and subtitled “False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” this witty epic from multiple-Oscar®-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Biutiful, MVFF33; The Revenant) centers on Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns to Mexico after a successful sojourn in the US. It appears that our hero is undergoing a midlife crisis of Felliniesque proportions, as he grapples with his identity, childhood memories, familial relationships, and even his two countries’ histories, in progressively surreal and outrageous vignettes. In Silverio’s world, imagination consistently subverts reality, and Iñárritu and his collaborators, including cinematographer Darius Khondji, make the transitions appear fluid and seamless. Iñárritu’s first production in his native Mexico since his celebrated feature debut Amores perros in 2000, Bardo resonates as a personal statement about the world and the artist’s place in it. —Richard Peterson

In Spanish with English subtitles

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