Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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Cruise gave the press an early look at his wild return to audacious auteur filmmaking and promised that his collaboration with Iñárritu was worth the 26-year wait.
In a conversation moderated by Alfonso Cuarón, del Toro and Alejandro G. Iñárritu opened up about the motifs that have defined their careers.
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"I appreciate that he was so honest with me and it was great, but it was terrifying," Oscar winner Iñárritu recalled.
"The movie is undeniably one of the most powerful things I've seen in terms of cinema," del Toro said of his friend Alejandro González Iñárritu's film.
The filmmaker and his star spoke to IndieWire about the mysterious sense of displacement in the film and why it comes from a personal place.
The director explains to IndieWire how he condensed his dream-like movie into a wordless teaser — and his recent decision to cut 22 minutes from the feature.
"Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths" marks writer-director Iñárritu's first film shot in his native Mexico in over 20 years.
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