Ahead of his arrival at the Tokyo International Film Festival to receive the Kurosawa Akira award, Alejandro González Iñárritu connected with THR to discuss the making of his phantasmagoric journey through personal and Mexican history
began a limited release in U.S. theaters on Thursday, ahead of its global launch on the platform on Dec. 16.
It has been a journey. When Nicolás Giacobone and I were putting the script together, he became kind of a therapist. It was deep introspection that came out as an intimate auto-fiction. I let myself go. I think at my current age, I’m stronger now and I can laugh about myself. I approach most things with humor, in order to illuminate the pain or understand it. So the script writing was a sensitive process, but then when you go to make it, you just have to execute it.
I think it can be very hard for many Americans to get outside their bubble, because it’s a very self-serving culture. You can go anywhere in the world and expect everyone to speak your own language, and it’s a very sustainable ideology and culture that fulfills most of your needs. So, it’s sometimes very difficult for American people to grasp the emotion that we are talking about here. But that’s what I have attempted to do with this film.
I did find myself wondering why you chose to have your protagonist be a journalist and a documentarian, rather than, say, a filmmaker or a visual artist of some kind. Were there similar motivations to this decision? So the film is opening in a lot of cinemas in Mexico this week. What are your hopes and feelings for the Mexican release?
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