IFFBoston Preview Part I: Southern criminals, teenage soldiers, absurdist suburbanites

Monos

Thursday, April 25 at 7 p.m. at the Somerville Theatre

Alejandro Landes’ trippy and dreamlike fusion of Apocalypse Now and Lord of the Flies was one of the big acquisitions of this year’s Sundance, where it was acquired by I, Tonya distributor Neon after one of its first screenings. It certainly seems well within the bizarro distributor’s wheelhouse, as it concerns a group of young men, who are soldiers hired by some shadowy organization, who are tasked with guarding a hostage and a cow on a remote mountaintop somewhere in Latin America. Whatever this is, we’re sure it’s going to be pretty damn weird, and that’s more than enough to get us excited for it.