The film received a 4-minute standing ovation at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.

According to Variety, the movie Bardo ended late at 0:15 on September 2, however, the audience did not leave the theater immediately but stood and gave a 4-minute long applause for director Alejandro González Iñárritu and the film's production team. Before the audience's applause, the director of Birdman hugged the actors in the crew and shed tears.

Alejandro González Iñárritu returns with a stellar film at the Venice Film Festival

Bardo is considered a contemplative film about life, human life, but has an epic color with extremely beautiful frames of nature and culture of Mexico. The audience will follow a journalist and a documentary filmmaker on their journey back to their homeland with the stories they have experienced, the problems they have to face to find their identity. The two main roles are played by Daniel Giménez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani.

The film opens with a flashback in which Silverio’s wife, Lucía (Griselda Siciliani), gives birth to a CGI baby named Mateo. As soon as he is born, Mateo exclaims, “The world has gone mad,” and asks to be returned to his mother’s womb. The dramatic opening sequence is the 59-year-old director’s excuse to tell a story that makes no distinction between fantasy and reality, love and reason, failure and success, ego and humility.

According to Variety, with a duration of 174 minutes, many viewers will hesitate, not wanting to put themselves in the contemplative space that Alejandro G. Iñárritu has created. However, the film is considered profound, multi-layered and can help the talented director win the third Oscar in his career after Birdman (2014) and The Revenant (2015).

Bardo is 3 hours long but treats the audience to many beautiful frames with profound content.

Bardo is 3 hours long but treats the audience to many beautiful frames with profound content.

Previously, Alejandro G. Iñárritu received 4 wins out of 9 Oscar nominations for the movie Birdman. This was also the first time he won an Oscar in the category of Best Director. During the 2016 Oscar season, Iñárritu won the award for Best Director for the movie The Revenant. The Revenant also received 12 other Oscar nominations and helped Leonardo DiCaprio touch the prestigious golden statue for the first time.

Back to Bardo, the film is showing in select theaters in Mexico and North America, before streaming on platforms later this year.

The 79th Venice International Film Festival takes place from August 31 to September 10 with 23 works competing in the main categories.

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