Birds of Passage

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Birds of Passage

2019

2h 5m

Crime

Drama

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The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through the eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture and ancestral traditions at stake.

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Birds of Passage traces the familiar arc of the drug crime thriller from a different direction that's as visually absorbing as it is hard-hitting.

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Eric Kohn

IndieWire

12/20/2019

B+

Yet even as Birds of Passage fetishizes its dreary mood, it excels at tracking the gradual impact of crime across generations less invested in playing by ancient rules.

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Manu Yáñez

Film Comment Magazine

12/19/2019

Suffice it to say that while watching Birds of Passage this critic couldn't stop thinking about Martin Scorsese's Casino, with its lucid and kinetic dissection of the annihilation of a subculture at the hands of global capitalism.

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

12/18/2019

Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego's follow-up to their 2015 gem Embrace of the Serpent is a stunner.

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Taylor Baker

Drink in the Movies

10/04/2021

78/100

Episode 40: The Dead Don't Die / Birds of Passage / All That Jazz

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/03/2020

3.5/4.0

What Birds of Passagecaptures so magnificently is the way in which colonialism and capitalism will penetrate every aspect of life for the Wayúu tribe.

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Luke Gorham

In Review Online

07/30/2020

If the film's trajectory feels inevitable from its early moments, the particularities of culture and character frequently delight.

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The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through the eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture and ancestral traditions at stake.

Director: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra
Producer: Cristina Gallego, Katrin Pors
Screenwriter: Maria Camila Arias, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal
Distributor: The Orchard
Production Co: Films Boutique, Pimienta Films, Blond Indian Films, Ciudad Lunar Producciones, Snowglobe
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 13, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 7, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $507.3K
Runtime: 2h 5m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, SDDS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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