El Cant dels Ocells (Birdsong) Reviews

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

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

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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

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5