The Screen Podcast is back for the 2022/2023 awards season. Over the coming weeks, the Screen International team will provide expert analysis of the race for Oscar and Bafta glory, and bring you interviews with many of the leading contenders.
In the first episode of the season, Alejandro González Iñárritu, a two-time best director Oscar winner for Birdman and The Revenant, talks to Screen contributing editor Mark Salisbury about his latest project, Mexican Oscar entry Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths.
Iñárritu explains why it took him so long to follow up 2015’s The Revenant, shortening Bardo by 22 minutes after its Venice premiere, and the real-life inspiration for the project.
“I finished the film two days before I leave for Venice,” said Iñárritu. “When I saw it for the first time in Venice with 2000 people I immediately during the screening was identifying ways I could synthesize things… how to get a better internal rhythm in certain scenes.”
Bardo, Iñárritu’s first film to be fully filmed in Mexico since Amores Perros in 2000, stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as a documentarian who returns to his native country of Mexico and begins having an existential crisis.
It is released in select UK cinemas on November 18, before launching worldwide on Netflix on December 16.
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