Birdsong (Catalan: 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]

Birdsong
Directed byAlbert Serra
Written byAlbert Serra
Produced byMontse Triola
Lluis Miñarro
Starring
  • Victòria Aragonés
  • Lluís Carbó
  • Mark Peranson
  • Lluís Serrat Batlle
  • Lluís Serrat
Edited byÀngel Martín
Albert Serra
Music byPau Casals
Release date
  • 2008 (2008)
Running time
98 minutes[1]
CountrySpain
LanguagesCatalan
Hebrew

Reception

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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".[1]

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

References

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

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