Monos

AroView: A dark contemporary fable inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, set in a remote and mountainous region of Columbia, where a group of teenage rebels are living in a self-organised military training camp. A visually breathtaking film that metaphorically explores Columbia’s dark history as a nation through a raw and unflinching depiction of adolescence.

“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.” ~ Tim Robey, The Telegraph.