O Ornitólogo (2016)

Directed by

João Pedro Rodrigues

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Brazil, France, Portugal

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

16

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 112 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An ornithologist researching black storks in a Portuguese forest gets swept into strange events that mirror the story of Saint Anthony. The film blends his solitary fieldwork with encounters that shift between the real and the surreal.

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What happens

The Ornithologist (Portuguese: O Ornitólogo) is a 2016 drama film directed by João Pedro Rodrigues. It was released in 2016. The film stars Paul Hamy as Fernando, an ornithologist studying black storks in Portugal, who is drawn into a series of incidents paralleling the life of Saint Anthony of Padua, known to the Portuguese as Anthony of Lisbon. Director João Pedro Rodrigues has described his film as a "purposefully transgressive and blasphemous reappropriation of the saint’s life". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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