Exclusive Interview with director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu

At some point in every director’s career, they are drawn to the idea of making their personal autobiographical movie. The Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s latest, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths is his first movie, since his back-to-back Best Director Oscar wins for Birdman and The Revenant.  

Entertainment and pop culture specialists Zavvi recently caught up with Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, to discuss finding power in laughing at yourself and blurring the lines between narrative and dreams. 

He said, “Our lives go from transcendent to stupid and absurd: I needed to be able to laugh at myself to make this right.” As Iñárritu explained to Zavvi, after hitting those career highs, it felt like the perfect time to make something much closer to home: “I think a lot of it has to do with my age.” 

The character in Bardo, Silverio experiences many of the same challenges Iñárritu has faced throughout his life – “The things he’s going through are circumstances that I’ve been through – but the meaning of the title False Chronicle of a Handle of Truths, is guidance to what the film really is.” He went on to say, “It was important for me to navigate through some of the more intense moments of my life in a way that would allow me and the audience to laugh about them.” 

Full interview with Iñárritu can be found on Zavvi blog.https://www.zavvi.com/blog/interviews/director-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-talks-his-surreal-comedy-bardo/