If Guillermo del Toro called a movie “mesmerizing” and its director “a powerful new voice in cinema,” you’d want to see that movie, right? The Oscar-winning Mexican director had nothing but praise for “Monos,” the latest feature from Colombian filmmaker Alejandro Landes. The film won a Special Jury Award for its Sundance Film Festival premiere before going on to play the Berlinale and MoMA’s New Directors/New Films. Featuring a score from Oscar-nominated composer Mica Levi, only her fourth since “Under the Skin” and “Jackie.”
Per the official synopsis: “Alejandro Landes’ awe-inspiring third feature is a breathtaking survivalist saga set on a remote mountain in Latin America. The film tracks a young group of soldiers and rebels — bearing names like Rambo, Smurf, Bigfoot, Wolf and Boom-Boom — who keep watch over an American hostage, Doctora (Julianne Nicholson). With a rapturous score by Mica Levi, director Alejandro Landes examines the...
Per the official synopsis: “Alejandro Landes’ awe-inspiring third feature is a breathtaking survivalist saga set on a remote mountain in Latin America. The film tracks a young group of soldiers and rebels — bearing names like Rambo, Smurf, Bigfoot, Wolf and Boom-Boom — who keep watch over an American hostage, Doctora (Julianne Nicholson). With a rapturous score by Mica Levi, director Alejandro Landes examines the...
- 7/16/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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