If you ever questioned it before, let “Bardo” — wordily subtitled ‘or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,’ as was the director’s wont with 2014’s “Birdman” — lay your queries to rest: Alejandro Iñárritu really, really loves Fellini. He’s not the only one, naturally: comparisons to “8 ½” are par for the course whenever a filmmaker comes out with a notionally autobiographical work, as with Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory” in 2019.

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And just like that, Alejandro G. Iñárritu has wrapped production on his new film in Mexico City. Twenty years after shooting his first film, “Amores Perros,” the five-time Oscar winner returned to his native country, Mexico, to produce and shoot this new and entirely Mexican project. And it’s got a title, “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths).”

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Up until this point, Iñárritu’s movie had been shrouded in secrecy.

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