No./7
The life-affirming film that’s all about death
With BARDO, filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu celebrates his roots with his most personal film yet
THE SUBJECT OF death comes up early in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s conversation with Empire. It makes sense: shuffling off this mortal coil is in part what led the man behind Oscar-winning films The Revenant and Birdman to make Bardo (full title: Bardo (Or False Chronicle Of A Handful of Truths)). “I turn 60 next year,” he says. “When you’re closer to death, there’s an inevitable invitation to look inward and make sense of any questions that have been buried.”