BARDO - SPOILER-FREE Review | LFF 2022

BARDO - SPOILER-FREE Review | LFF 2022

Directed by: Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Written by: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone

Starring: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano

Runtime: 163 min

Synopsis: Meet Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a filmmaker and journalist who has always sought to make socially relevant work that challenges, questions and exposes. When he receives the prestigious Alethea award from the American Society of Journalists, he returns home to Mexico to celebrate. However, ‘home’ isn’t easy to define when you’ve been living in the USA for 20 years and you can’t fathom what Mexico now means for you or your immediate family.

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John and the Hole - SPOILER-FREE Review | Sundance 2021

John and the Hole - SPOILER-FREE Review | Sundance 2021

Directed by: Pascual Sisto

Written by: Nicolás Giacobone

Starring: Charlie Shotwell, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Ehle, Taissa Farmiga

Runtime: 103 min

Synopsis: While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John (Charlie Shotwell) discovers an unfinished bunker - a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents (Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Ehle) and older sister (Taissa Farmiga) and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive.

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