CrimeDrama

Pájaros de verano

2019
★ 7.5 / 10
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business...
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Reviews
★★★★★
Columbian film-makers Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra's (married at the time of shooting before separating) 2018 film has (in some circles) been badged as an 'epic crime drama' and, whilst there are elements of read across from, say, The Godfather, I think th...
★★★★★
Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano in Spanish) is a striking and fascinating look into an 'alien' world, a term I use here because this film is a deep dive into another time and far different culture. It could be another planet almost. The film is about event...
★★★★★
"Birds of Passage" (2018 release from Colombia; 125 min.) is a drug drama about a Wayuu (northern Colombia) family. As the movie opens, Zaida has completed her year of confinement "with grace and dignity" according to her mom, and now the village is celebratin...
★★★★★
Guerra & Gallego's Wayuu crime epic is dense and beautiful, but a necessary part of its long maudlin descent is that it becomes a serious drag especially towards the end. It's not as transformatively psychedelic as Guerra's Embrace which I adore but it has som...
★★★★★
Unlike any gangster/drug movie you've ever seen, Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) is from the same team that made the astonishing , and presents a thematically similar narrative, looking at the disintegration of an ancient indigenous culture over a period...
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