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Birdsong

El cant dels ocells

Spain

2008

97 Min
Color, Black and White
1.85:1
Hebrew, Catalan
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DIR Albert Serra

EXEC Luis Miñarro, Montse Triola

SCR Albert Serra

DP Jimmy Gimferrer, Neus Ollé-Soronellas

CAST Victòria Aragonés, Lluís Carbó, Mark Peranson, Lluís Serrat Batlle, Lluís Serrat

ED Àngel Martín, Albert Serra

PROD DES Jimmy Gimferrer

SOUND Joan Pons, Jordi Ribas

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), London (Europa), Toronto (Visions), San Sebastián (Made in Spain), AFI FEST (World Cinema), Rotterdam (Bright Future)

Synopsis

The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, who has just been born. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

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Albert Serra

Albert Serra was born in Banyoles, Catalunya, in 1975. A Hispanic Philology and Comparative Literature major from the Universidad of Barcelona, his first feature was Crespià, the Film not the Village (2002). He has written, produced and directed Honour of the Knights (Quixotic) (2006), selected by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the top ten pictures of 2007. He has also written and directed Bird Song, which was premiered at Cannes 2008 and is now in this Festival’s competition. He’s currently working on a new film, and writing a play commissioned by the Teatre Lliure of Barcelona. —Mardelplatafilmfest.com 

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Scott Barley

24Mar13

A lucid and languorous journey of gorgeous images, with the luxury of time given to its audience to contemplate them earnestly. I myself decided to watch without subtitles - as I do with Tarr, Bartas et al, because a peculiar dreamlike sensation resonates from these kind of experiences, when all you have is images and time.

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James Devereaux

6Sep12

Masterpiece.

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Nadin

16Jun11

Birdsong is one of the few films nowadays that gives you the luxury of time. While everything outside rushes past, you can snuggle up and stop the time. A wonderful demonstration how expressive minimalism can be.

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Lemmycaution

13Sep10

One of the most beautiful films I have yet watched, but also one of the most boring...

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Your forking: "Birdsong" and "Waiting for Sancho"

By Ryland Walker Knight on February 25, 2009

  Aleatory and teleonomic, Birdsong bears a somewhat familiar resemblance to the Straub-Huillet school of adaptation and philosophy; however

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