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Something to watch tonight: Monday 18 December

Monos (Landes, 2019)

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Dan Slevin
Dec 18, 2023
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Colombia’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2020 was one of the first films released in New Zealand after the cinemas reopened following the March-May 2020 Covid lockdown.

I reviewed it for RNZ’s At the Movies at the time:

Monos opens in the misty mountains of Colombia. Without anything in the way of exposition, we soon realise that something …

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