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Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)
Follows 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. (IMDb)
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Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)

2022
Comedy, Drama
2h 39m
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Avg Percentile 45.2% from 169 total ratings

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Rated 22 Nov 2022
63
38th
The Five Stages of Grief of Iñárritu realizing he’s become an intellectual.
Rated 27 Jan 2023
40
14th
Innaritu is misusing his substantial directing talent to bore the viewer with an endless monologue without any narrative force to cling to. This film is the equivalent of hanging out with a person that is on a drug infused Me-rant. The first 10 minutes you give encouraging nods, then it's curtains for your attention. It's well worded but disregards you as a listener. After an hour of overstepping the boundaries of your attention, you finally tell him to shut up.
Rated 09 Mar 2023
4
5th
While Darius Khondji's cinematography is outstanding, "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths" is a bloated, self-indulgent mess that wastes its premise and predominantly Mexican cast. Alejandro González Iñárritu's ego gets in the way of a potentially great film, and while there are some impressive moments, they're too few and far between to redeem the overall experience.
Rated 05 Feb 2023
67
29th
Rather nice to look at, with the nifty surrealist imagery going hard to begin with. But the film gets less weird, more pedestrian, and more tiresome as it goes on.
Rated 27 Dec 2022
82
98th
Eye-Catching Artistic Work!!! Spectacular Film with Brilliant Filming!!! Visual Imaginary Story from the Creative Director, who is Expert in his work!!!
Rated 02 Apr 2023
50
67th
Fellini + O. Paz... I wished to know deeper about the guy's work (to what extent it was a compromise, betrayal or was there any achievements in them. I mean that could be a little thicker.)
Rated 21 Dec 2022
65
19th
'Bardo' is part of a growing tradition of films treating the extinction of an individual consciousness as an apocalyptic event through an allegorical depiction of what the mind goes through in its last moments (e.g., 'Synecdoche, NY', 'All That Jazz') and has quite a few similarities with Sorrentino's teasing portraits of celebrated men questioning their artistic legacies, but it's far less engaging than all the above due its overwrought sentimentality and uncritical view of its main character.
Rated 21 Dec 2022
100
95th
This one will take you from surreal to emotional to grotesque to ridiculous and back again - a masterpiece!
Rated 27 Dec 2022
56
62nd
I legit thought Joaquin Phoenix was in this...
Rated 06 Jan 2023
45
14th
I’m happy for those who have been really moved by Bardo, and I was impressed at times with how certain sequences of this film were staged and executed. But good gravy, this script drove me up the wall. Sometimes it’s head-clangingly obvious, but more frequently, it’s just smug and self-important. I felt like I was being kept at a great distance while watching this.
Rated 03 Feb 2023
51
11th
A visual triumph, but I was so disappointed by this given my love for Birdman. This struck me as something Bunuel might have made if he was still alive and directing (and I'm not a big Bunuel guy). Plenty of surrealism on display, but is ultimately too inaccessible and too long to boot. I was interested at first, but got to the point where I was just annoyed.
Rated 13 Feb 2023
88
90th
Too inaccessible? If anything, it overexplains itself. But not too much, luckily. Quite beautiful in many ways.
Rated 11 Mar 2023
63
24th
Iñárritu goes full-on Fellini with this abstract, wandering and flamboyant portrait of Cacho's Silverio; far too overstuffed and undisciplined to work as a whole, but a brilliant, dizzying opening shot, and the tour through an eerie city culminating on a mountain of corpses are just two highlights of a film that admittedly does start to grow in impact in the memory. Performances are all fine, and Cacho is as good a bedraggled and winsome stand-in for Mastroianni as anyone would be.
Rated 13 Mar 2023
60
26th
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Rated 29 Mar 2023
86
81st
A film about time, memory and finding oneself
Rated 17 Apr 2023
70
29th
Sadly, this is the first Iñárritu film that didn't work for me. It looks beautiful and does have a number of good invididual scenes, but overall it's too meandering and disconnected.
Rated 11 Jun 2023
40
58th
I liked some of the absurdities about Bardo, but for the post part this appeared to be pretentious drivel doing overtime. Got an Oscar nomination for the Cinematography, which was hardly consistent, but did show a lot of playfulness when it wanted to.

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