Monos

Translated from swedish: Finally, here's a director who surprises, both in storytelling technique, cinematography, and music. After enduring nature's mercilessness for 1 hour and 40 minutes, I also understand the point of glamping. "Monos" never lets you forget that nature has many faces.
- Katarina Emgård

Swedish: moviezine.se »

Translated from swedish: It's not a simple drama of good versus evil, even though you pick sides. "Monos" is more of a state of being - we witness a struggle for survival and a battle against our own primitive nature.
- Björn Jansson

Swedish: sverigesradio.se »

Translated from swedish: "Monos" is a film where the innocent suffer. A film where we see people driven to become their most primitive selves. It's unfair, it's unsettling, but it also sets the stage for a cinematic experience far beyond the ordinary.
- Oscar Vilhelmsson

Swedish: filmtopp.se »

Translated from swedish: The film is fierce and while it's skillfully told visually, it ties your stomach in knots. It doesn't offer much hope, it's unsettling but at the same time you can't stop watching. It tells so much about how people can behave, especially under extreme circumstances where violence is part of everyday life. I also see the film as a story about what military structures do to people.
- Rosemari Södergren

Swedish: kulturbloggen.com »

Translated from swedish: Screenwriter and director Alejandro Landes' "Monos" is a journey into a kind of darkness, which might sound a bit overextended and worn given the film's tropical second act.
- Calle Wahlström

Swedish: ng.se »

Translated from swedish: Hormones, boredom and itchy trigger fingers become an explosive cocktail in a film that portrays eight teenagers in a rebel group. The music and cinematography are impressive. But it lacks depth.
- Jan Söderqvist

Swedish: svd.se »

Translated from swedish: Color, light and chaos, mosquitoes, torrential rain and assault rifles, mushroom trips and suicide. The bizarre "Monos" is cinematic art to be admired, largely thanks to Jasper Wolf's fantastic cinematography and Mica Levi's pulsating, menacing score. But the script is plagued by half-baked ideas and themes we've seen handled better before.
- Karolina Fjellborg

Swedish: aftonbladet.se »

Translated from swedish: Colombian "Monos" is powerful but exoticizing.
- Helena Lindblad

Swedish: dn.se »

Translated from swedish: Well-crafted and at times brutal about survival and the cruelty of brainwashing children into becoming soldiers.
- Mira Klingberg Hjort

Swedish: arbetet.se »

Translated from swedish: Watching children mock and bully an adult woman has an almost extremely brutal quality, a trauma that is transmitted and amplified by youth. At the same time, the tension doesn't sustain itself all the way through and it's hard not to get a bit bored. Both the purpose of the kidnapping and the war are so vague, the strange commander's motives so unclear. Everything becomes mostly a study in cruelty. Why am I actually watching these little monsters?
- Kristoffer Viita

Swedish: svt.se »

Translated from swedish: "Monos" is well-crafted and director Alejandro Landes has had a clear vision for what he wants to tell. Even though I don't like the ending and how it falls into the same trap as many other foreign films in trying to tell their story as realistically as possible, the journey there is very good. The children are convincing in their roles, but best of all is the magnificent cinematography that will stick in your memory the most.
- Linus Andersen

Swedish: cinetaste.se »

Translated from swedish: The sensory environmental depiction is at its best in "Monos", which was filmed under extreme weather conditions. Ultimately, however, Colombia's Oscar submission becomes too contrived and preachy.
- Kim Ekberg

Swedish: flm.nu »