Birds of Passage
Drama • 2018 • 2 hr 5 min
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José Acosta, Carmiña Martínez, Natalia Reyes, Greider Meza, José Vicente
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Immaculate cinematography, incredible performances and greatly nuanced crime family story. Dark and beautiful. Made by a master filmmaker.
This movie shows once again that here in South America we have great talents
A crime-drama/neo-western with a thinly veiled message about the impact of occidentalization on indigenous communities
What a great film! The “rising through the ranks of crime” narrative reminds me of ‘city of god’ or ‘blood in blood out’
An exploration of the corrupting influence of capitalism, how even centuries long traditions and ties are ground to nothing under its march.
Another Colombian drug movie. Maybe it's a little more critical than other producction that deal whit the subject. beautiful photography.
Embrace of The Serpent was a story about how colonialism destroyed native culture, this is a story of how capitalism destroyed what was left
The artistic merit in this gangster epic can be considered the foreign “Godfather” with a grand story and the truth of the fallen lineage.
A DPs wet dream
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