THE ORNITHOLOGIST
João Pedro Rodrigues

O.V. Portuguese

The Portuguese filmmaker goes on a voyage of self-discovery where disturbing eroticism blends with religious mythology. Provocative, enigmatic and seriously unpredictable.

The boundary-pushing filmmaker (O Fantasma) sets his latest in the dense Portuguese forest, where an ornithologist whose kayak has capsized is saved from certain death by two Chinese women on a pilgrimage. Straying from his usual big-city stomping grounds, Rodrigues ventures into a lush natural setting ripe for...