Birdsong (film) explained

Birdsong
Director:	Albert Serra
Editing:	Àngel Martín Albert Serra
Music:	Pau Casals
Producer:	Montse Triola Lluis Miñarro
Runtime:	98 minutes^[1]
Country:	Spain
Language:	Catalan Hebrew

Birdsong (Catalan; Valencian: El cant dels ocells) is a 2008 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".

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

References

General references

• Web site: Magi Hour: Albert Serra's "Birdsong". Reichert. Jeff. 24 February 2009. 17 June 2017. IndieWire.
• Web site: Review: 'Birdsong'. Chang. Justin. 21 May 2008. 17 June 2017. Variety.
• Web site: Albert Serra, Radical Classicist. 17 June 2017. Harvard Film Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20161210030052/http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009janfeb/serra.html. 10 December 2016. dead.

Notes and References

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