The Ornithologist
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Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues | 113 mins | 2016
Loosely drawing upon his own life—his father had gifted him a pair of bird-watching binoculars as a child—Rodrigues conjures an ecstatic phantasmagoria about an avian peeper (erstwhile haute couture hunk Paul Hamy) who finds himself in a lusty retelling of the life of St. Anthony of Padua after suffering an accident—and crossing paths with a pair of Chinese lesbians—in a Portuguese nature reserve. Part fever dream, part Christian allegory, all sensory euphoria.
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