Drunken Birds

[Plays 5/12 at 7:20 p.m. and 5/17 at 4:30 p.m. as well as virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] 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.
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