“Birds of Passage,” the new film from Colombian filmmakers Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, takes the common cinematic trope of the gangster movie and tells it from a distinctly Latin American point of view: a surreal, epic tale about about early drug runners in a remote indigenous community. “The setting of La Guajira and the world of the Wayuu gave us an opportunity to tell this story in a different way, subverting the genre in the process,” Gallego tells me, “a genre that has been very macho, a genre that has been very much of and about men.” Los Angeles Times

Source: Los Angeles Times February 16, 2019 12:33 UTC