Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez
Inarritu on Thursday presented his latest film at the Venice
Film Festival admitting its debt to Federico Fellini and asking
the late Italian maestro to protect it.
The film, Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) is
an epic comedy starring Daniel Giménez Cacho as a Mexican
journalist and documentarian, in the Birdman director's most
intensely autobiographical work yet.
"Fellini is a patron saint, like Bunuel, Roy Anderson,
Jodorowsky," said the 59-year-old Mexico City-born director of
The Revenant.
"There is no cineaste who has not been infected by Fellini, just
as no musician can do without Mozart or Bach.
"His cinema is the most similar means of expression to dreams.
"And I hope that saint Fellini has protected me this time too".
Inarritu's is the second film to be presented in competition at
the August 31-September 10 edition of the world's oldest film
fest, after Noah Bambauch's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel
White Noise, which was presented on opening night Wednesday.
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