5 OF THE BEST
Mar 08, 2020
3 minutes
MONOS
OUT NOW / CERT MA15+ / 103 MINS
is tactile and surreal, a beautiful jungle nightmare — cinematic ayahuasca. Alejandro Landes’ Colombian film follows a gang of child soldiers who live in isolation on a misty mountaintop above the clouds. They are unwashed and unpredictable, kicking about with a kidnapped hostage, butting heads, falling in love, shooting their rifles into the air for shits and giggles. They can be mean and merciless, but also naive and confusedand in here, but is very much its own beast. Startling stuff.
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