El Cant dels Ocells (Birdsong) Reviews

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Serras sublime slapstick wont suit everyones taste but what worthwhile film does?

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

Birdsong's hard-core adherence to such rigorous aesthetics is strictly for the true believers, but they will be rewarded tenfold.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/6

The lovely and strange Birdsong (El Cant dels Ocells) is less a retelling of the Nativity story than a dream about it.

| Original Score: 4/5

Mostly engrossing for patient viewers who'll be able to truly appreciate the seemingly simple, minimal narrative and to sense the wealth of emotion and complexities lurking beneath it.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.0/10

Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra is an artist whose work inspires more thinking than philosophizing.

Full Review

a work of faith that treats the tenants of its story with as much respect as it treats the medium in which it operates.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5