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country/region to watch/stream online Netflix has made Monos (2019) movie available in VE country/region to watch/stream onlineMovie basic details
Current status - Released
Total runtime - 103 mins.
Release date - 15-08-2019
Release year - 2019
Genres - Drama, War
Overall ratings and scores for Monos:
Happiness Score - 6.7/10, World Popularity Score - 14.083/100, IMDB Score - 6.9, Metascore - 78, Internet Movie Database - 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes - 92%, Metacritic - 78/100, .
Monos movie has Total Global Votes - 300, Total IMD Votes - 17,144
Monos Movie Introduction: Movie Monos, release year 2019 is written by Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos and directed by Alejandro Landes. The leading star-cast in this movie are Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero along with the other stars and crew members.
Trailers, Clips, Featurettes and Behind the Scenes
Monos | Trailer | NDNF19
Alejandro Landes on directing 'Monos' | Interview
Movie overview and plot by Anagha Shashank
Movie in-short: On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Movie story-line: On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Movie synopsis: Teenage commandos perform military training exercises by day and indulge in youthful hedonism by night, an unconventional family bound together under a shadowy force know only as The Organization. After an ambush drives the squadron into the jungle, both the mission and the intricate bonds between the group begin to disintegrate.
Highlights - Monos (2019)
Total budget - $0.00
Total revenue - $0.00
Produced by - Pandora FilmproduktionLemming FilmFilm i VästLe PacteCampo CineDynamoBord Cadre FilmsDago García ProduccionesMutante CineSnowglobeCounterNarrative FilmsStela CinePando Producciones
Produced in - ArgentinaColombiaDenmarkFranceGermanyNetherlandsSwedenSwitzerlandUnited States of AmericaUruguay
Available languages - English (English), Spanish (Español),
Homepage URL - https://www.monos-film.com/
Awards won / Nominations - 36 wins & 67 nominations
Certificate(s) - UA : 16 NL : 15 NL : 15 DK : Κ-15 ES : 15 CO : M/16 CO : M/16
Lead Actors, Writer(s), Director(s) of Monos (2019)
Lead Actors - Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero
Writer(s) - Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos
Director(s) - Alejandro Landes
Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) about Monos (2019)
What is the release date of Monos (2019)?
Release date of Monos (2019) is 15-08-2019.
What is the total runtime of Monos (2019) in minutes?
Total runtime of Monos (2019) in minutes is 102 min.
What is the budget consumed to produce Monos (2019) movie?
The budget consumed to produce Monos (2019) movie is around $0.00.
How much revenue is expected from movie Monos (2019)?
Expected revenue from movie movie Monos (2019) is around $0.00.
What is the pupularity of Monos (2019)?
Worldwide pupularity of Monos (2019) movie is 14.083%.
What is the name of the production company of film Monos (2019)?
Production company of film Monos (2019) is/are Pandora Filmproduktion, Lemming Film, Film i Väst, Le Pacte, Campo Cine, Dynamo, Bord Cadre Films, Dago García Producciones, Mutante Cine, Snowglobe, CounterNarrative Films, Stela Cine, Pando Producciones, .
Which country the film Monos (2019) is produced in?
Film production country for the film Monos (2019) is Argentina, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United States of America, Uruguay, .
Which language the film Monos (2019) is produced in?
Film Monos (2019) is produced in English (English), Spanish (Español), language(s).
Which Genre the film Monos (2019) belongs to?
Movie Monos (2019) is categorized under Adventure, Drama, Thriller genre(s).
Who are the lead actors of the film Monos (2019)?
Lead actors of the film Monos (2019) are Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero.
Who is the writer of the film Monos (2019)?
The writer(s) of the film Monos (2019) is/are Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos.
Who is the director of the film Monos (2019)?
The director(s) of the film Monos (2019) is/are Alejandro Landes.
Which awards, nominations and recognitions are won by Monos (2019) movie?
Movie Monos (2019) has 36 wins & 67 nominations awards and nomination in it's profile.
What is the story of Monos (2019) in-short?
Short plot of movie Monos (2019): On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow..
What is the full story of Monos (2019) movie?
Full plot of movie Monos (2019): Teenage commandos perform military training exercises by day and indulge in youthful hedonism by night, an unconventional family bound together under a shadowy force know only as The Organization. After an ambush drives the squadron into the jungle, both the mission and the intricate bonds between the group begin to disintegrate..
Where to find full details of Monos (2019) movie?
You can find the full details of movie Monos (2019) at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6062774
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List of full Starcast and crew members of Monos (2019)
Full Starcast:
Name: Moisés Arias
Character: Patagrande
Name: Julianne Nicholson
Character: Doctora
Name: Sofia Buenaventura
Character: Rambo
Name: Karen Quintero
Character: Leidi
Name: Julian Giraldo
Character: Lobo
Name: Laura Castrillón
Character: Sueca
Name: Deibi Rueda
Character: Pitufo
Name: Paul Cubides
Character: Perro
Name: Sneider Castro
Character: Bum Bum
Name: Wilson Salazar
Character: Mensajero
Name: Jorge Román
Character: Buscador de Oro
Name: Valeria Diana Solomonoff
Character: Periodista
Crew Members:
Name: Santiago Otheguy
Department: Editing
Job/Role: Editor
Name: Eyde Belasco
Department: Production
Job/Role: Casting
Name: Alexis Dos Santos
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Screenplay
Name: Alexis Dos Santos
Department: Production
Job/Role: Casting
Name: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Department: Editing
Job/Role: Editor
Name: J.C. Chandor
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Alejandro Landes
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Screenplay
Name: Alejandro Landes
Department: Directing
Job/Role: Director
Name: Alejandro Landes
Department: Production
Job/Role: Producer
Name: Alejandro Landes
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Story
Name: Fernando Epstein
Department: Production
Job/Role: Producer
Name: Jasper Wolf
Department: Camera
Job/Role: Director of Photography
Name: Lena Esquenazi
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Sound Designer
Name: Javier Farina
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Sound Mixer
Name: Mica Levi
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Original Music Composer
Name: Clas Hakeröd
Department: Crew
Job/Role: Post Production Supervisor
Name: Santiago A. Zapata
Department: Production
Job/Role: Producer
Name: Duke Merriman
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Juan Manuel Barreto
Department: Lighting
Job/Role: Gaffer
Name: Leandro de Loredo
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Name: Andres Ramirez
Department: Costume & Make-Up
Job/Role: Makeup Artist
Name: Alexander Schepelern
Department: Visual Effects
Job/Role: Visual Effects Supervisor
Name: Javier Umpierrez
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Sound Designer
Name: Daniela Schneider
Department: Art
Job/Role: Production Design
Name: Daniela Schneider
Department: Costume & Make-Up
Job/Role: Costume Design
Name: Daniela Schneider
Department: Production
Job/Role: Casting
Name: Ted Guard
Department: Editing
Job/Role: Editor
Name: Angela Leyton
Department: Art
Job/Role: Art Direction
Name: Johanna Buendia
Department: Costume & Make-Up
Job/Role: Costume Design
Name: Alex Rojas
Department: Crew
Job/Role: Makeup Effects
Name: Alex Ezpeleta
Department: Directing
Job/Role: Assistant Director
Name: Eduardo Castillo
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Sound Effects Editor
Name: Cristina Landes
Department: Production
Job/Role: Producer
Name: Nina Strøm
Department: Visual Effects
Job/Role: Visual Effects Producer
Name: Andrés Calderón
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Charles De Viel Castel
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Jorge Iragorri
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Gustavo Pazmin
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Josef Rebalski
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Gloria Maria Restrepo
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Reviews Section
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
**_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 ideological premises, but instead something that had a kind of ghostly feel. That's what inspired the story, to try to break any binary notion of future/past, man/woman, paradise/hell, and try to get_ _at something that you feel through the stomach or through the skin. I think that's what cinema has; it appeals to your conscious, like a story does, but also your subconscious, kind of like dreams do. So the idea was to do this politically sensitive allegory, but like a dream._ - Alejandro Landes; "Alejandro Landes, Julianne Nicholson & Moises Arias On The Film Monos"; _BUILD Series_ (September 13, 2019) Joseph Conrad's _Heart of Darkness_ (1899) and William Golding's _Lord of the Flies_ (1954) by way of the mad folly of Werner Herzog's _Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes_ (1972) and Francis Ford Coppola's _Apocalypse Now_ (1979) and the children-are-screwed nihilism of Héctor Babenco's _Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco_ (1981) and Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's _Johnny Mad Dog_ (2011), garnished with the soul-shattering futility-of-war mentality of Elem Klimov's _Idi i smotri_ (1985), all wrapped up in a pseudo-fairy tale/fantasy aesthetic. Turns out an insane hodgepodge like that results in a completely unique film, quite unlike anything you're ever likely to have seen. Written by Alejandro Landes and Alexis dos Santos, and directed by Landes, Monos (from the Ancient Greek "_μόνος_" ("_mónos_"), meaning "alone") is an uncategorisable film that moves from a mountain top which is literally above the cloud-line to a stifling jungle to a raging river to the edge of a city in the midst of war, whilst thematically travelling all the way from a tight-knit group of soldiers who would die for one another to a last-man standing mentality bordering on insanity. Visually stunning, the plot is a little lacking, and sometimes the allegorical basis is a tad imprecise, but this is hugely ambitious and audacious filmmaking from a director we're going to be hearing a lot about in the coming years. In an unidentified country (the characters are speaking Spanish, meaning we're somewhere in Latin America, with the filming done in Colombia) at an unidentified point in time, a war is raging between unidentified combatants for never-specified reasons. On a mountaintop, we're introduced to the MONOS unit, a small group of child soldiers known only by their _noms de guerre_ – Wolf (Julian Giraldo), Rambo (Sofia Buenaventura), Bigfoot (Moisés Arias), Swede (Laura Castrillón), Smurf (Deiby Rueda), Dog (Paul Cubides), Boom-Boom (Sneider Castro), and Lady (Karen Quintero). Apart from being drilled by "Messenger" (former real-life Colombian guerrilla fighter Wilson Salazar), a superior officer in what is referred to only as "The Organisation", the children have two tasks – to look after a conscripted milk-cow named Shakira and to guard an American prisoner being held for ransom, referred to as Doctora (Julianne Nicholson). By day, they take their duties very seriously, but by night, they act more like the teenagers they are; drinking, eating mushrooms, having sex, goofing around. A tight-knit group, morale is high. That is until an accident has a series of knock-on effects that ultimately sees them abandon their mountain base, heading into the unforgiving jungle far below. Cut off from their chain of command, their discipline starts to break down and soon, they have come into violent conflict with one another. The film is very loosely inspired by the Colombian Conflict, a low-intensity, multi-sided civil war that began in 1964 and is still going on today. The majority of fighting has been between the government, paramilitary groups, narcos, foreign actors, and guerrilla organisations, the best known of which is _Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia_ (FARC). In particular, Landes and dos Santos based the events of the film on the 2016 peace agreement signed by Juan Manuel Santos's government and FARC, which called for FARC members to surrender their weaponry to UN forces, at which point they would be reintegrated into Colombian society. FARC officially ceased to exist as a military group in 2017, instead reconstituting as a political party, _Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común_. However, around 1,600 FARC dissidents refused to lay down arms, forming independent splinter groups to continue fighting the war. According to Landes, >_the fragile possibility of peace is in the air, and it's been a long time coming._ Monos _explores this moment through the prism of the war movie. Though this is my generation's first chance, this is not Colombia's first peace process and so it feels plagued by ghosts. These ghosts inspired me to shape the film like a fever dream._ One of the most important aspects of the film is the lack of political, historical, societal, and militaristic specificity – it could be an allegory for almost any conflict at any point in time, with Landes explaining, >_the idea, from the story to the production design, was to create an atemporal world, out of place, out of time, far away from everything – with this group of kids who is being trained and watched over by some unknown force. They're on a mission, part of a clandestine army. They're a squad of soldiers in the 'back' lines of a war – but also just a tight-knit pack of teenagers. Though the specifics of the Colombian civil war are the source of inspiration, the idea was always for the experience of the film to cross borders and exist as a world in and of its own._ In this sense, it has both a fairy-tale sensibility and a mythological underpinning, with the violence and brutality offset by a poetic tone that speaks to timelessness. Rather than attempting to elicit pathos by evoking the horrors of a particular conflict, Landes treats the story as a universal allegory, facilitated by the lack of concrete contextualisation. On top of this, the film examines the chaos and absurdity of war through the lens of adolescence; although the members of MONOS can be violent, so too are they teenagers, a duality that informs the entire film. The opening scene, for example, depicts the group playing football, but wearing blindfolds, thus encapsulating both the seriousness with which they regard their training, but also acknowledging that play is still an important part of their lives. Indeed, the film could even be interpreted as an (admittedly extreme) allegory for adolescence itself (as opposed to adolescence being an allegory for something else) – a group of teenagers unsure who they are, experimenting with drugs, alcohol, and sexuality, not entirely thrilled about being told what to do by adults, and convinced that they can do a better job of running things. Monos's most salient aesthetic characteristic is its dream-like quality, walking a very fine line between the gritty realism of a war drama and the hallucinatory feel of a fever-dream (in this, it very much recalls _Apocalypse Now_). This sense of existing just slightly outside reality is aided in no small part by the discordant and dislocating score by Mica Levi (_Under the Skin_; _Jackie_; _Marjorie Prime_), which is built around whistling and timpani percussion. Also important here is the lush and saturated photography by Jasper Wolf. On the mountain, Wolf often shoots scenes with the characters dwarfed in a small corner of the frame, filling almost the entire screen with vegetation and sky. Such compositions suggest life lived at the edge of the world, existing outside society, existing outside even time. However, once we relocate to the jungle, Wolf goes in the opposite direction, shooting in tight close-ups, frequently handheld, suggesting both claustrophobia and the loss of the near-omniscient control seen earlier in the film. If I were to criticise anything, it would be the plot, which is very slight, even by allegory standards. Indeed, regarding that allegory, although I certainly admire Landes's steadfast resistance to specificity, sometimes he's almost _too_ successful in rendering the non-specific and universal, leaving you wondering what exactly he is trying to allegorise (even the title can't be locked into a single meaning – apart from the Greek word for "alone" and the name of the unit itself, it's also the Spanish term for "monkey"). And although the theme of child soldiers is a weighty enough issue on its own, it's something with which Landes seems uninterested for its own sake. This can lead to a lack of emotion, which is almost certainly by design, but it makes it difficult to feel empathy for any of the characters, even Doctora. Nevertheless, this is hugely ambitious cinema with a lot on its mind. Straddling the line between the surreal and the barbaric, realism and fantasy, the seriousness of the adult world and the innocence of childhood, it's a singularly unique viewing experience, as beautiful, lyrical, and abstract in some places as it is ugly, crude, and realistic in others. Both a dire prediction for where an increasingly divided world may be heading and a foundation myth, _Monos_ speaks as much to our future as it does to the legends underpinning our present.
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.
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