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Macon Film Guild Presents: "Birds of Passage"

Presented by Macon Film Guild at Douglass Theatre

Birds of Passage traces the familiar arc of the drug crime thriller from a different direction that’s as visually absorbing as it is hard-hitting.

Birds of Passage (Colombia-Denmark-Mexico, drama, 125 min., unrated) From the Oscar-nominated director of “Embrace of the Serpent” comes this saga centered on the indigenous Wayúu people of Colombia. Despite wishing to uphold his culture’s values, a young man enters the drug trafficking business in the 1970s and earns the disapproval of his tribe’s matriarch. “In modern movie terminology, ‘epic’ usually just means long, crowded and grandiose. ‘Birds of Passage’ earns the label in a more honest and rigorous manner. It’s about how the world changes, about how individual actions and the forces of fate work in concert to bring glory and ruin to a hero and his family. Even as you may be reminded of other sweeping chronicles of fortunes made and souls undone by ambition and greed — ‘Giant,’ ‘The Godfather,’ even ‘Breaking Bad’ — your perception of the world is likely to be permanently altered.” – New York Times

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Dates: 2019/05/12 - 2019/05/12

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Discussion after the first screening