Synopsis
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
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Cast
- Moisés AriasPatagrande
- Julianne NicholsonDoctora
- Sofia BuenaventuraRambo
- Karen QuinteroLeidi
- Julian GiraldoLobo
- Laura CastrillónSueca
- Deibi RuedaPitufo
- Paul CubidesPerro
- Sneider CastroBum Bum
- Wilson SalazarMensajero
- 100
The Guardian
An arrestingly bizarre experience. - 91
IndieWire
Aided by “Under the Skin” composer Micah Levi’s thunderous score, Landes delivers a suspenseful encapsulation of alienated youth enmeshed in pointless battles that can only lead to further destruction. - 91
The Playlist
Though Monos feels very contemporary aesthetically, its subjects are timeless: the malleability of group dynamics and how subtle changes can lead to either violence or harmony. It’s a philosophical film with very few words, examining its ideas through powerful images and feelings. - 90
Screen Daily
This is a gripping, sometimes hypnotising film in which notions of good and evil are less clear-cut than the urgent desire to stay alive. - 80
CineVue
Nothing short of an aesthete’s dream, a film crammed with visual bravado that at various times echoes Kubrick, Malick, and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. - 80
The Telegraph
There’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. - 80
Time Out
Kids train for guerrilla fighting in a gorgeously atmospheric film that feels like a transmission from the future. - 67
The Film Stage
The viscerality will surely leave one shaken, though they may question if the unceasing sadistic acts on display are worth the experience.