They live in the mud above the clouds.
They’ll go down to the river screaming.
They will hide in the forest like sprites.
And continue the fight, the fires, and the dance.

The first few minutes of Monos equals a violent heart sank. The rest of the film is as exhilarating as the music that shapes it, a miraculous soundtrack by Mica Levi. Alejandro Landes’ Fitzcarraldian endeavour is a story without a place about painted faces and deep gazes, black eyes filled with rage and courage, belief and innocence. About those few who can bear the stare of beelzebub, and it’s stench, not needing or bothering to chase the flies away.