Overview
A surreal journey through the mind of a documentarian grappling with his identity and past.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Slow
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- Mild
- surreal
- melancholic
- intimate
- reflective evening
- arthouse film night
What critics said
Critics were polarized, broadly praising the performances, cinematography, and direction while finding the lengthy, self-reflexive writing excessive and pretentious.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Silverio's introspective journey moves through dreamscapes and recollected experiences rather than a stable realist chronology.
The acclaimed documentarian's crisis, filmmaking, family relationships, and Mexican identity closely organize the film's self-reflexive premise.
Immigration, Los Angeles, Mexico, and the family's differing responses to displacement shape Silverio's conflict with his Mexican identity.
The film stages historical recreations and Mexican cultural memories through elaborate surreal imagery and subjective distortion.
Films like BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, and why
8½
surreal psychological drama about identity, memory, family, and an artist's interior life
The Falls
ambitious dreamlike drama blending personal memory, national history, and theatrical visual invention
The Tree of Life
emotionally intense autobiographical-feeling drama using surreal imagery to examine family and displacement
Santa Sangre
Mexican surreal drama centered on mortality, guilt, memory, and unstable realities
Movie Details
- Director
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Release Date
- 2022-10-27
- Runtime
- 159 min
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 (275)
Cast
- Daniel Giménez Cacho
- Griselda Siciliani
- Íker Sánchez Solano
- Ximena Lamadrid
- Luz Jiménez
- Luis Couturier
- Francisco Rubio
- Andrés Almeida
- Clementina Guadarrama
- Jay O. Sanders
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths about?
- An acclaimed Mexican documentarian wanders through extravagant dreams and fractured memories while confronting family grief, migrant dislocation, and the burdens of belonging.
- What is BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths as slow, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as dense.
- Is BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths as mild.
- What did critics think of BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths?
- Critics were polarized, broadly praising the performances, cinematography, and direction while finding the lengthy, self-reflexive writing excessive and pretentious.
- Which films are like BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths?
- Films with a similar feel include 8½, The Falls, The Tree of Life, and Santa Sangre.
- How long is BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths?
- BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths runs 159 minutes.
- Where can I watch BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths?
- In United States, BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
