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Monos

Survival is a cruel game.

6.7 / 10

103 minutes

2019-08-15

English

AR

Actors :

Moisés Arias, Julianne Nicholson, Sofia Buenaventura, Karen Quintero, Julian Giraldo, Laura Castrillón, Deibi Rueda, Paul Cubides, Sneider Castro, Wilson Salazar, Jorge Román, Valeria Diana Solomonoff

Description

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

Reviews

SWITCH.

SWITCH.

6/23/2021, 3:58:25 PM

Perhaps the best way to describe the film is to keep it simple: ‘Monos’ is a mood, an aesthetic, an idea; a sensory cinematic experience more than a story. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-monos-a-hypnagogic-mix-of-teen-angst-and-warfare

Stephen Campbell

Stephen Campbell

6/23/2021, 3:58:29 PM

**_A bleak allegorical study of war as seen through the eyes of children_** >_The idea comes from, in many ways, the country where I'm from, Colombia, a country that's experienced 60 years of civil war. And it's been going on for so long, and there are so many different factions and sides, and there's peace agreements and they break, so, in a way, it wasn't something you could go at with clear ...

Luis_989

Luis_989

6/23/2021, 3:58:30 PM

Monos is a film that's both raw, and abstract. Incredibly well done and surprisingly well acted by the young cast. An interesting look at those who are essentially nothing more than pawns of a game they don't even understand, but I liked it a lot that the focus is not on it but on this group of young people and the experience is as crude and strange as it is mesmerizing.