Episode 341: Alejandro González Iñárritu On The Music Of Bardo
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Edith Bowman
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Alejandro's latest offering is Bardo: False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths - a semi-autobiographical tale that follows a journalist & documentarian who returns to his native country of Mexico and begins having an existential crisis in the form of dreamlike visions.
As well as co-writing and directing the film, Alejandro also collaborated with friend of the pod Bryce Dessner on the score
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| 0:00.0 | Merry Christmas! |
| 0:03.1 | Apologies if you're not feeling in the festive mood yet. |
| 0:06.2 | Quite clearly I am. |
| 0:07.9 | That's because I am inching my way towards finishing for Christmas. |
| 0:12.7 | I say finishing. |
| 0:13.9 | We've still got podcasts coming at your ears |
| 0:17.1 | over the entire festive periods and very brilliant and wonderful and exciting guests |
| 0:21.9 | because we love what we do and there's also so much to watch so maybe you've been to the cinema |
| 0:27.8 | to see the new avatar and maybe you're enjoying some brilliant films at home like emily which is up |
| 0:34.4 | on streaming services glass onion is on the way on Netflix. |
| 0:38.9 | It did have a very short cinema release, |
| 0:40.7 | but it's coming your way just before Christmas on Netflix. |
| 0:43.7 | More on that shortly. |
| 0:45.1 | But there's just an abundance of things to watch, |
| 0:46.9 | and that's one of the things that I love about Christmas |
| 0:49.0 | is just kind of hunkering down with my body weight and cheese |
| 0:53.7 | and enjoying as many films |
| 0:55.0 | as physically possible. |
| 0:57.0 | So, yeah, all very, very exciting. |
| 0:59.6 | And we're very excited, actually, about our latest guest on soundtrack and the Mexican |
| 1:04.3 | filmmaker Alejandro Gonzales Inorito. |
| 1:07.9 | I'm quite happy that I can say his name now. |
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