The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films presents Birds of Passage.
In 1970s La Guaira, Colombia, an indigenous Wayuu family gets swept up in the newly-booming marijuana trade and their lives and traditions are forever fractured when greed and passion overtake their tribe’s honor. Based on the true origins of drug trafficking between the United States and Colombia, filmmakers Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego resist the lurid glamour of narco-crime cinema and instead present a film alive with ethnographic authenticity and Shakespearean tragedy. Brilliantly colorful and fiercely prideful, Birds of Passage traces the familiar downfall of a criminal empire in an unfamiliar setting.
Disc Features:
- 4K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Tension and Revision, a MUBI interview with directors Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego at Cannes
- The Word Messengers, new interviews with the cast and crew
- Behind the scenes footage
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Jessica Kiang
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