Keswick Film Festival

Friday 28th February 9:00 PM - Alhambra

Monos

Director: Alejandro Landes Country: Colombia
Cert: 15 Year: 2019 Length: 102 minsLanguage: Spanish/English
2020 Festival
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Audience Reaction

Score: 66.21% Attendance: 96

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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

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



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It is alternately sensuous and scary, thrilling and appalling, with a dark heart of horror at its core.
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Mark Kermode, Observer



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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.
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Maria M. Delgado, Sight And Sound



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