Events Calendar · October 2022
The MVFF Spotlight on Daniel Gimenez Cacho
Date: Friday, October 14, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm in theater
Phone: 877-874.-6833
Celebrating 45 years of film in Marin County from October 6th through October 16th! The internationally renowned Mill Valley Film Festival offers a high-profile, prestigious, non-competitive environment perfect for celebrating the best in independent and world cinema. MVFF (the oldest fall film festival in California) remains committed to celebrating film and filmmakers and offering the highest resources and production elements possible, whatever challenges the world throws our way.
BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS
SCREENING + SPOTLIGHT & PRESENTATION OF THE MVFF AWARD FOR ACTING
Actor, director, and social activist, Daniel has worked with legendary directors like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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Mexico, 2022, 174 min, Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Named for the Buddhist concept of a transitional state between death and rebirth, and subtitled “False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” this witty epic from multiple-Oscar®-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Biutiful, MVFF33; The Revenant) centers on Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns to Mexico after a successful sojourn in the US. It appears that our hero is undergoing a midlife crisis of Felliniesque proportions, as he grapples with his identity, childhood memories, familial relationships, and even his two countries’ histories, in progressively surreal and outrageous vignettes. In Silverio’s world, imagination consistently subverts reality, and Iñárritu and his collaborators, including cinematographer Darius Khondji, make the transitions appear fluid and seamless. Iñárritu’s first production in his native Mexico since his celebrated feature debut Amores perros in 2000, Bardo resonates as a personal statement about the world and the artist’s place in it. —Richard Peterson
In Spanish with English subtitles
The MVFF Tribute program honors and celebrates lifetime achievements in the career of a significant film artist.
Additional Location or Other Information
Cine Arts Sequoia Theater in Mill Valley / Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael / The Lark Theater in Larkspur / BAMPFA in Berkeley / The Roxie in San Francisco