Birds of Passage

By Lloyd 2022-12-07 20:21:10

The traces of commercial genre films are too obvious

[Watching at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival] The opening film of the "Director's Fortnight" section of the Cannes Film Festival this year. The Colombian director's last work "Snake's Embrace" received rave reviews. It is said to be a strong style of author's film, but I haven't seen it yet. In my impression, Colombia is a country full of crime and drugs. Unsurprisingly, these two stereotypes appear in this work. In fact, this is a vengeful theme. The director uses chapters to narrate...

By Dayana 2022-11-09 07:28:40

Colombian epic, drug lord and magical realism

| Godfrey Cheshire

February 12, 2019 |

When Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s gripping, brilliantly mounted drama “Birds of Passage”...

By Raven 2022-11-04 11:39:24

Desert, cannabis and migratory birds

Migratory birds are frequent visitors of the La Guajira Desert in northern Colombia. During the changing of the four seasons, they passed over the desert, witnessing the good fortune and disaster on the edge of Colombia from the 1960s to the 1980s. When trucks replaced mules and horses, and when cocktail party bands replaced traditional flute sounds, perhaps they were also wondering, after the grave was excavated in the next year, would they drag out bones or guns? Colombian director Ciro...

By Haylie 2022-09-06 11:01:27

The distant dust under the wheel of the history of migratory birds with a strong desire to survive

There are two major conflicts in the plot. The first time was caused by Moyes' unauthorized killing of a drug dealer. This curly-haired brother is just an outsider. The second time was caused by the son of the old lady, Leonidas, who violated the biological daughter of Aniwar, a wealthy merchant of the Vayu family. Rapayet actually represents the potential consciousness of the tribe....

By Dolores 2022-06-08 22:32:53

Dreams and dead souls blown away by summer wind

On the poster of "Migratory Birds", a man with a gun is wrapped in a red cloth with his head. The blood red was blown by the wind, and the skirt corners were raised like a woman, rippling in the air. The man's face was sunken, like a skeleton hiding behind a red cloth, waiting alone.

As a new work by Ciro Guerra, director of "Snake's Embrace", "Migratory Birds" is located in the desert of northern Colombia. Unlike the water and jungle in the previous film, this movie seems to set off a...

By Lionel 2023-08-18 21:01:39

The story doesn’t match the...

By Lucie 2023-07-17 09:58:48

Dreams prove the existence of the...

By Elmo 2023-07-11 03:32:50

[Exhibition at China Film Archive] Columbia’s growth and destruction from the proposal of a male dick to the rich side of the drug lord. I can see the unique culture of South American family-style business, with complex ethnic groups, bloodlines, and interest entanglements. The dream prophecy adds a mysterious and surreal element. However, the plot is still too simple. The death knell of brother-in-law and mother-in-law has sounded the death knell. Such a play is a bit perfunctory. Although...

By Gabe 2023-06-29 15:27:19

The South American version of the drug trafficking story of the Yi people in Liangshan...

By Virgil 2023-06-10 06:44:24

A strong mother-in-law with a darling maniac is...