Review: Birds of Passage flies further than the trashy narco thrillers clogging up your Netflix queue GlobeArts
Story continues below advertisementTo go by my Netflix homepage, drug-trafficking stories are all the rage right now. I believe the streaming service has approximately 17 series dedicated to Pablo Escobar alone. But there are stories to tell about the rise of narcotics before even the King of Cocaine entered the scene, and ways to do so that don’t evoke cheap American thrillers.
– look at the rise of Colombia’s drug business through the eyes of the country’s indigenous Wayuu people, focusing on one man desperate to impress the love of his life .Courtesy of TIFF The narrative arc leans toward the predictable – of course the path to easy fortune is paved with corruption and death – and Gallego and Guerra do occasionally stretch out their scenes past the point of meditative and toward static boredom, especially in the film’s first half. But the impact of modern vice upon the Wayuu is a captivating tale that’s never been told before, which is all the more refreshing for Gallego and Guerra’s unsentimental vision.
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