With an international cast of leading men and a team of extras selected by the prestigious Julio Toledo Extras Casting agency, the talented Mexican director returned to shoot at the country. His next work opens in Venice in a few days and will then land on the platform of streaming Netflix and in the best cinemas in the world. It is estimated that it will reach the massive screens about the end of 2022.
The month of August brings the start of a new edition of the prestigious International Festival of Venice Cinema, which will take place between the 31st of this month and the 10th of September.
There, in the midst of the best works of independent cinema in the world, nothing more and nothing will be presented less than the last film of the famous Mexican director Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, five times Academy Award winner. It will compete for the Golden Lion with other titles Important such as “White Noise” by the American Noah Baumbach, “The Whale” by Darren Aronofsky, “L’Immensitá” by the Italian Emanuele Crialese.
Iñárritu's film is entitled “Bardo, false chronicle of a few truths” and stars an international cast led by Daniel Giménez Cacho, Grisela Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andres Almeida and Francisco Rubio. All the extra cast have been recruited and selected by the Julio Toledo Extras Casting team, in a new experience of the highest level in which the Mexican extras agency participates.
“We are very happy to have been part of Iñárritu’s return to Mexico” (he was not filming in the country since "Amores perro" in 2000) declared members of the agency. Likewise, they described the challenge of filming the film, since it was one of the first works films that began filming after the worst of the Covid 19 pandemic during the year 2020.
Therefore, everything had to be carried out entirely under the control of the protocols that required the use of chinstraps, constant hygiene standards, maintenance of interpersonal spaces and all the necessary precautions that totally changed the organization of the film set in in order to guarantee the safety of the extras, actors and technical personnel.
In this way the streets of Mexico City in the Francisco I. Madero area were filled of extra actors from the agency who complied with the health indications of the coordinators to as well as with the instructions of the famous director.
As part of this challenge, there were also locations in Ahualulco, San Luis Potosí, where recruited local population exclusively, in what also meant another great organizational effort by Julio Toledo Extras Casting.
The film has been reaping a lot of good expectations. Just by mentioning the name of Iñárritu, many hope for the best, without a doubt.
As for the story, it deals with what can be learned about a reporter who returns to his country after a time out and when he comes back he finds a harsh reality. The protagonist, Silverio, is a Renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles. After receiving a prestigious international award, must for personal reasons return to his native Mexico, without knowing that this simple return will take him to an existential limit.
Narrated through the masterful hand of Gonzáles Iñárritu, it promises to take the viewer through a astral travel, an immersive and visually surprising experience that will contrast with the moving and intimate personal journey that happens to Silverio.
With this simple but powerful formula, “ Bard, false chronicle of a few truths ” you will see the lights of the 79th International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art in Venice. There will also be artistic contribution of our agency that has managed to overcome the many challenges posed by the shooting with extras in this film.