Birdsong (2008 film)

Birdsong
Directed by Albert Serra
Produced by Montse Triola, Lluis Miñarro
Written by Albert Serra
Starring
  • Victòria Aragonés
  • Lluís Carbó
  • Mark Peranson
  • Lluís Serrat Batlle
  • Lluís Serrat
Music by Pau Casals
Edited by Àngel Martín, Albert Serra
Running time
 98 minutes[1]
Language Catalan, Hebrew

Birdsong (Catalan: El cant dels ocells) is a 2008 contemplative film by Catalan auteur Albert Serra. The film recounts the journey of the three wise men as they travel to meet the Baby Jesus. Serra shot and edited over 100 hours of footage for the film.[2] Canadian film critic Mark Peranson played Joseph.[3]

Reception

A. O. Scott, writing for The New York Times, called Birdsong "less a retelling of the Nativity story than a dream about it, filtered... through a sensibility that recalls Luis Buñuel and Samuel Beckett".[1]

Birdsong won several prizes at the 2009 Gaudí Awards.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Scott, A.O. (24 February 2009). "Three Wise Men, Bumbling Their Way to Bethlehem". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Hughes, Darren (April 2009). "Albert Serra Interviewed on El Cant dels ocells (Birdsong)". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Knight, Ryland Walker (25 February 2009). "Your forking: "Birdsong" and "Waiting for Sancho"". MUBI Notebook. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "El cant dels ocells". Acadèmia del Cinema Català (in Catalan). Retrieved 17 June 2017.

General references

  • Reichert, Jeff (24 February 2009). "Magi Hour: Albert Serra's "Birdsong"". IndieWire. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  • Chang, Justin (21 May 2008). "Review: 'Birdsong'". Variety. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  • "Albert Serra, Radical Classicist". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 17 June 2017.


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