Episode 341: Alejandro González Iñárritu On The Music Of Bardo

12/19/22 • 40 min

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Very excited about our latest guest on Soundtracking - the Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro's latest offering is Bardo: False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths - a semi-autobiographical tale that follows a journalist & documentarian who returns to his native country of Mexico and begins having an existential crisis in the form of dreamlike visions.
As well as co-writing and directing the film, Alejandro also collaborated with friend of the pod Bryce Dessner on the score

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