Monos
Eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow on a faraway mountaintop in Alejandro Landes's award-winning drama.
"Belonging to a rebel group called 'the Organisation,' a ragtag band of child soldiers, brandishing guns and war names like Rambo, Wolf, Lady, and Bigfoot, occupies a derelict ruin atop a remote mountain where they train themselves, watch over a 'conscripted' milk cow, and hold hostage a kidnapped American engineer, Doctora (Julianne Nicholson, I, Tonya). But after an attack forces them to abandon their base, playtime is over for the motley young crew." (Sundance Film Festival)
- Director:
- Alejandro Landes ('Porfirio', 'Cocalero')
- Writer:
- Alejandro LandesAlexis dos Santos
- Cast:
- Julianne NicholsonMoisés AriasJulian GiraldoKaren QuinteroLaura CastrillónDeiby RuedaPaul CubidesSneider Castro
Reviews & comments
Vox
pressA gritty, jarring cinematic style, Monos is less likable than admirable, an achievement with a clear, apocalyptic vision.
The Telegraph
pressThere's a bicep-flexing quality to Landes's direction, with its bursts of colour and chaos, its conjuration of a surreal experience out of tactile reality. You tumble out of it bruised, bewildered, mesmerised.
The Guardian
pressSomething between Apocalypse Now, Lord of the Flies and Embrace of the Serpent.
Hollywood Reporter
pressEven in this fictional context, the line between portraying and exploiting abused innocence gets uncomfortably, offensively blurred.
Vox
pressA gritty, jarring cinematic style, Monos is less likable than admirable, an achievement with a clear, apocalyptic vision.
The Telegraph
pressThere's a bicep-flexing quality to Landes's direction, with its bursts of colour and chaos, its conjuration of a surreal experience out of tactile reality. You tumble out of it bruised, bewildered, mesmerised.
The Guardian
pressSomething between Apocalypse Now, Lord of the Flies and Embrace of the Serpent.
Hollywood Reporter
pressEven in this fictional context, the line between portraying and exploiting abused innocence gets uncomfortably, offensively blurred.
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