Alejandro G Inarritu’s subsequent film ‘Bardo’ acquired by Netflix 

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G Inarritu’s newest characteristic movie ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ has landed on the streaming service Netflix.

According to a press launch by the streamer, the corporate plans to launch the movie in each theatres and on its platform later this yr.

The movie, which is presently in post-production, is Inarritu’s first characteristic since Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer The Revenant’ in 2015.

It can be his first movie to be shot in Mexico since his critically-acclaimed 2000 film ‘Amores Perros’.

Penned by Inarritu and Nicolas Giacobone, who beforehand collaborated on the Oscar-winning script for ‘Birdman’, the film is a “nostalgic comedy set against an epic personal journey”, as per the outline shared by Netflix.

It chronicles the story of a famend Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, who returns house and works by way of an existential disaster as he grapples along with his id, familial relationships, the folly of his reminiscences in addition to the previous of his nation.

He seeks solutions in his previous to reconcile who he’s within the current.

The movie options actors Daniel Gimenez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani in lead roles.

‘Bardo’ will get pleasure from a theatrical launch on a worldwide scale later this yr together with in Mexico in addition to the US, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Japan, Korea and lots of extra nations earlier than debuting on Netflix.

“Alejandro is among the biggest fashionable filmmakers and one of many main visionaries in our trade.

‘Bardo’ is a cinematic expertise that has impressed us to create a launch technique designed for the movie to penetrate tradition within the largest and widest manner,” Netflix Head of Global Film Scott Stuber stated.

“We will give movie lovers all over the place the chance to expertise the movie by way of a worldwide theatrical launch and the movie’s worldwide launch on Netflix.

Having identified Alejandro for a very long time, I’m personally very excited to lastly be capable to work alongside him and to convey his movie to a worldwide viewers,” he added.

Inarritu, whose credit additionally embrace ’21 Grams’, ‘Babel’ and ‘Biutiful’, had famously received three Academy Awards – finest image, finest director and finest unique screenplay for 2014’s ‘Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance’.

For his 2015 film ‘The Revenant’, the filmmaker had picked up his finest director trophy, whereas lead star DiCaprio bagged his maiden finest actor award.