Alexandre Moors' "The Yellow Birds" premiered at Sundance in 2017 and received a limited theatrical and video-on-demand release the following year. The film also won the Special Jury Award for cinematography at the festival, and it's easy to see why. "The Yellow Birds" is a haunting look at a never-ending war in a desolate landscape starring Tye Sheridan and Alden Ehrenreich. Both actors give tremendous performances, playing young men whose spirits are crushed by the endless violence and cruelty they're subjected to by the US Army.
Like the lyrical, poetic novel on which it's based, "The Yellow Birds" tells its story via a series of flashbacks, constantly cutting back and forth across several timelines. This occasionally makes the film difficult to follow, especially as the plot moves into its endgame, which explains an event that happened earlier in the narrative.
Further, the film raises complicated questions about truth and memory, specifically...
Like the lyrical, poetic novel on which it's based, "The Yellow Birds" tells its story via a series of flashbacks, constantly cutting back and forth across several timelines. This occasionally makes the film difficult to follow, especially as the plot moves into its endgame, which explains an event that happened earlier in the narrative.
Further, the film raises complicated questions about truth and memory, specifically...
- 6/4/2023
- by Eric Langberg
- Slash Film
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