Drunken Birds

Original title: Les oiseaux ivres

2021
1h 45m

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Marine Johnson and Jorge Antonio Guerrero in Drunken Birds (2021)

Willy's quest to find his long-lost love has brought him from Mexico to Montréal, as a seasonal worker. Destinies intersect, moments of magic realism arise, worlds collide, and tensions swel... Read allWilly's quest to find his long-lost love has brought him from Mexico to Montréal, as a seasonal worker. Destinies intersect, moments of magic realism arise, worlds collide, and tensions swell amidst the long days of physical labor.Willy's quest to find his long-lost love has brought him from Mexico to Montréal, as a seasonal worker. Destinies intersect, moments of magic realism arise, worlds collide, and tensions swell amidst the long days of physical labor.

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6.7/10

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- 15 wins & 17 nominations total

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Official submission of Canada for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.

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9/10

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After recklessly falling in love with the beautiful wife (Yoshira Escárrega) of a powerful, ruthless Mexican drug lord who heads up a drug cartel, escapes his fate due to a kindhearted henchman (Pedro Hernández), and then is determined to find his love when she disappears in Ivan Grbovic's engaging, poignant, award-winning, multilayered, well-acted, 105-minute, 2021 film highlighted by wonderful choreography using 35mm film, a tenacious, smitten Mexican migrant (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) takes a seasonal job working for a Canadian farmer (Claude Legault) and his adulterous wife (Hélène Florent), who have a rebellious teenage daughter (Marine Johnson), picking lettuce on the Bécotte vegetable farm in Quebec and then while researching for his love who he believes is in Montreal, gets mixed up with the discontented, estranged, unhappy family.