Monos

Friday 28th February 9:00 PM - Alhambra
Monos
Director:Alejandro Landes
Cert:15 Year: 2019 Length:102mins
Country:Colombia Language:Spanish/English
Alejandro Landes' third feature, is a 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 The teenage commandos perform military training exercises by day and indulge in youthful hedonism by night, an unconventional family bound together under a shadowy force known only as The Organization. After an ambush drives the squadron into the jungle, both the mission and the intricate bonds between the group begin to disintegrate.

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Critics

“An experience at once jagged and lyrical, brutal and beautiful, angry and abstract, scattered and wholly singular.”

Variety

“It is alternately sensuous and scary, thrilling and appalling, with a dark heart of horror at its core.”

Mark Kermode, Observer

“Monos is one of the year's most extraordinary films. Its feverish visuals rupture any sense of surface realism, creating a disarming, almost surrealist universe where anarchy takes hold.”

Maria M. Delgado, Sight And Sound

Score

66.21%

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