Monos

4.00
    Monos
    2019

    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

    Recommendations

    • 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.

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