Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths - Reviews

As in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” this story is told in a subjective, sometimes fanciful fashion.

The film’s non-linear narrative may challenge our desire for familiarity and structure, but this unconventionality invites a deeper understanding of its subjects and filmmaker.

It is mind-bending and doesn’t make sense but if you introspect, our minds are no different – as our thoughts go from a 0 to 100 very quickly and with no reasoning.

Yes, the blatantly autobiographical Bardo is acrimoniously self-indulgent. But it needs to be.

...visually sensational...

...the movie is a marvel in its own way, dotted with pure cinephile delights and small unexpected pockets of profundity...

...speckled with brilliant individual moments...

Ambitious, over-the-top, pretentious, autobiographical...

It’s a deeply personal film to Iñârritu and you can feel his connection to the visuals more so than the character of Gacho himself, further proving that the moving picture can evoke certain emotions that words cannot.

...the sheer balls of putting such a film on Netflix and demanding steamers’ attention has to be admired, as does the technical aplomb with which the dreamlike scenarios are brought to life.

...stundtals ren filmmagi.

...mesterinstruktøren Iñárritus filmteknisk storslåede og hæmningsløst navlebeskuende selvportræt...

Ambitionerne (...) er bjergtagende, og Iñarritu realiserer sin vision i 70mm-format med et tilsyneladende bundløst Netflix-budget.

...formår i passager på udsøgt vis at skabe usikkerhed om tid, sted, virkelighed og drøm, og som en dygtig illusionist gør instruktøren os usikre på, hvad vi ser...

En visuell spektakulär prakt.