Academy Award Winning Mexican Filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu Returns With His Most Personal Film

Academy Award winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu is back after a seven-year hiatus with his most personal film titled “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.”

The Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who won the Academy Award for best director for two consecutive years for his movies “Birdman” and “The Revenant,” is back with his new film titled “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” This is the filmmaker's first feature film in seven years and his first fully Mexican movie since Amores Perros in 2000, the Associated Press reported.

"Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths" is produced by Netflix and began a limited release in U.S. theaters on Thursday, Nov. 3 ahead of its global launch on their platform on Dec. 16.

The movie is a journey into the subconscious of a journalist and documentary filmmaker, Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho), who left Mexico City with his family 20 years ago and found great success in Los Angeles. As he tries to write a speech to accept a major honor in his adopted home country, Silverio finds himself in an inward existential exploration. Silverio contemplates his family relationships, questions of cultural identity, and changes to the country of his birth. Daniel Giménez Cacho stars in the film as Silverio Gama.

“This is a story without a story,” Iñárritu said. “It’s a very different construction from anything that I have done.”

There are many parallels with Iñárritu’s life in Silverio's story as he also left Mexico 21 years ago and reached extraordinary heights in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Reporter reported.

“I included some thoughts that I have about myself,” he said. “And I can be harsher with myself than anybody else. Much harsher. I know what people think. And as (Silverio’s wife) Lucia says to Silverio in the film, ‘Sometimes we become what we think people think about us.’"

Iñárritu says that he made the movie with his eyes closed and that he was looking inward to find a superior kind of reality or truth that is “infinite, chaotic, contradictory and terrifying.”

The cast of the movie didn’t get to read the script prior to joining the movie. However, instead, they did extensive rehearsals starting six months before the shoot.

Iñárritu is one of only three directors to win the Academy Award for best director for two consecutive years. The other two directors are John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz.