BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS – Review by TJ Callahan

Bardo tells the story of an acclaimed journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns to his native Mexico to face his past before he accepts a prestigious award in the United States. Bardo is Roma on hallucinogens. It’s blurred lines between reality and dreams, success and failure, hope and despair, English and subtitles. It’s director, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s passion project about his early years south of the border and his guilt about leaving.

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, Oct. 13-19: BIRDMAN

Opening Oct. 17, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Birdman, which sees the welcome return of Michael Keaton as a washed up actor trying to reclaim past glories by staging a play on Broadway. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the hugely talented filmmaker behind the likes of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel, and powered by a virtuoso performance from Keaton, Birdman is a knowing – and hugely entertaining – treatise on the fickle nature of fame.
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