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Monos 15 rating

The winner of Best Film at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival is a hallucinogenic, intoxicating thriller about child soldiers.

Drama 2019 103 mins

Director: Alejandro Landes

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Overview

High in the mountains of South America, above the billowing clouds but with gunshots heard in the distance, a motley group of child and teenage soldiers train and wait for instruction. They stave off boredom by fucking, playing and fighting. This might be some teen rave gone feral, but for the deadly seriousness underlined by the presence of an American hostage, the Doctora.

Monos has inspired feverish buzz wherever it has screened and comparisons to Apocalypse Now and Lord of the Flies are not off the mark in mapping out the film’s terrain. But this is also a wildly original vision from Landes and screenwriter Alexis dos Santos, referencing horrors on their own continent. The camera prowls over mud and organic decay, cutting swathes through the jungle, all to the strains of Mica Levi’s visceral score. Monos sparks with dark adrenal electricity and it’s completely, utterly thrilling. Winner of Best Film at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival.

Director
Alejandro Landes
Featuring
Sofía BuenaventuraJulián GiraldoKaren QuinteroLaura CastrillónDeibi Rueda
Genres
Drama
Certificate
15strong language, drug misuse, violence, sex
Released
2019
Country
Colombia
Language
Spanish with English subtitles