Dennis Harvey Film CriticIn a fairly crowded field of contenders, “Drunken Birds” just grabbed the nod as Canada’s best international feature submission to the Oscars.
The reasons why are almost immediately apparent on seeing Montreal-born Ivan Grbovic’s sophomore effort, co-written with cinematographer Sara Mishara.
Though more modest in length and scale (not to mention star wattage), this original story spanning Mexico and Quebec has the kind of thematic ambition and stylistic bravado of something like “Babel.”Admittedly, that bold, confident surface sits on a framework of rather crude melodrama it can’t entirely disguise.
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