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Weeded out
Birds of Passage powerfully illustrates how the cannabis trade is wiping out one of Colombia's indigenous peoples, says MARIA DUARTE
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead
GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism
CHRIS SEARLE hears the ordeal of the Palestinian people in the improvised musicianship of a UK jazz trio
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
Birds of Passage (15)
Directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
FROM the team behind the Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent comes another bold and ambitious drama which takes a unique look at the birth of the drugs trade in northern Colombia and its brutal effects on an unsuspecting indigenous community.
It examines the devastating impact of savage capitalism endured by a Wayuu family as, corrupted by the wealth and power that the sale of cannabis brings, we witness their rise and fall.
Inspired by true events, the film spans the period from from the 1970s to the 1980s and its five chapters show how its protagonist Rapayet (Jose Acosta) first gets into drugs trafficking when he meets a group of anti-communist US fighters.
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