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Daily Archives: June 23, 2017
Movie Review: “The Ornithologist” is tested by 40 Days in the Wilderness
The symbolic becomes the literal in João Pedro Rodrigues’s “The Ornithologist,” a Biblical allegory set in the wilds of Portugal. The title character (Paul Hamy) is a man of science, trained to study birds and their behavior. He has an accident on … Continue reading
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