(ANSA) - VENICE, 01 SEPT - "Fellini is a patron saint, like Bunuel, Roy Anderson, Jodorowsky. There is no filmmaker who has not been infected by Fellini, just as no musician can do without Mozart or Bach. His cinema it is the half-more similar to dreams. And I hope that Saint Fellini has protected me once again ", says Mexican director AlejandroGonzalez Inarritu who presented 79'Bardo 'in competition in Venice," an emotional journey rather than a biographical story ".
Inarritu, in the film (at the cinema and then from December 16 on Netflix which produced it), pays his personal tribute to the cinema of the master of Rimini.
'Bardo - The false chronicle of some truths' tells of a journey suspended between memories and experiences of the Mexican journalist, documentarian and writer Silverio Gama who is about to receive, as the first Mexican and Latin American, a prestigious award in America and for this reason he is also celebrated in his homeland where he returns after years.
The story of this journey between Los Angeles and Mexico and back and the story of himself 'expatriate' and his family is the heart of a film that also speaks of the history of the country, of the tragedy of migrants who try to cross the border, of life of Mexicans inCalifornia.
Everything like a dream, where the border with reality is not easily distinguishable, "because reality does not exist, rather it is the meaning you give to events you live, it is all fiction, indeed self-fiction".
The film does not come by chance, "I am on the eve of 60 years, I am led to reflect, I am ready to accept, since 2012 I have been helped by a Vietnamese monk in meditation and this has given rise to something liberating for me. Also, just today 1 September is an important anniversary: on 1 September 2001 with my family we left Mexico and went to live in Los Angeles for a year, instead we never left but this absence runs after me every day, Mexico becomes a state of mind and stories that I tell in Bard interpret this absence ".
He admits Inarritu that he lives, like his protagonist Silverio, a condition of bardo, of the rebirth: "I am in a middle ground, in America I am Mexican, in Mexico I am American".
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