Bardo Trailer Previews Birdman Director Alejandro Iñárritu's New Film

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Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) is one of the most respected directors working in North America today. Whenever he makes a new movie, it's bound for the Academy Awards, and today audiences finally got their first look at his latest movie: Netflix's Bardo.

Iñárritu has been keeping things quiet about his upcoming movie for Netflix, whose full title is BARDO (False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths). It was first announced in March 2020 that he would be working on a new movie and that it would be shot and set in Mexico, but little else was revealed for the next two years. With the release of the first trailer, audiences might now know why.

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Just explaining what Bardo is about is a challenge. At the simplest plot level, it is about a respected Mexican journalist named Silverio (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho, Cronos) who has been living in Los Angeles and decides to travel back home to Mexico, apparently struggling with his identity along the way. In the first trailer, the Beatles' “I Am the Walrus” plays over a series of dream-like vignettes along Silverio's journey. Water fills up a train, while the passengers seem not to care. People collapse in the street. A woman takes her top off and reveals fried egg yolks covering her nipples. Silverio is arrested at the airport by men wearing 19th century soldiers' uniforms and carrying muskets. What connects all these images is not at all clear.

“The folly of his memories and fears have decided to pierce through the present, filling his everyday life with a sense of bewilderment and wonder," reads the official plot synopsis. «With both emotion and abundant laughter, Silverio grapples with universal