‘Bardo’s Alejandro G. Iñárritu On Capturing Personal Dream On Film: ‘I Don’t Know If I Am Interested In Going Back After This Just To Tell A Story’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: When he comes to a film festival with his latest film, Alejandro G. Iñárritu cuts a supremely confident swath.
As he premiered his film Bardo in Venice, the writer/director seemed a bit more vulnerable. This is understandable because the film is a mix of dream and reality, a deep dive into his own life tragedies, the identity conflict facing an immigrant who becomes wildly successful in their adopted country, and the inevitable need to face one’s mortality.Pair that with the filmmaker’s wild visual imagination, and you’ve got an auteur tour de force.
Wait until you see how Iñárritu visualizes the loss and grieving of an infant, for example. Here is a brief conversation with the filmmaker on why this film, his first for Netflix, was a harder undertaking than The Revenant, which put Iñárritu and his star Leonardo DiCaprio on long sabbaticals just to recover from that grueling, frozen undertaking.
And which won Iñárritu his second consecutive Best Director Oscar, and DiCaprio his first for Best Actor.Deadline: I recall you attempted to return to filmmaking after The Revenant with a big-ticket ambitious project that dealt with global warming, possibly with Leonardo DiCaprio.
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