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080. The yellow birds

Alexandre Moors -- 2017 | USA | 5

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Cinema without people: Blue Caprice (second pass) (2013, Alexandre Moors, dir.)

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Tequan Richmond in Blue Caprice (2013, Alexandre Moors, dir.)

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War, of course, is hell. We know this, but it stands that we should be reminded now and again. With The Yellow Birds, filmmaker Alexandre Moors tries to find beauty in the brutality. From a screenplay by David Lowery and R.F.I. Porto and based on the novel by Kevin Powers, the film centers on two young soldiers, Brandon Bartle (Alden Ehrenreich) and Daniel Murphy (Tye Sheridan), in the thick of the Iraq War.

Taking orders from the intense and unstable Sergeant Sterling (Jack Huston, doing a lot here, for better and worse), Bartle and Murphy become fast friends. At a family event, Murphy’s mother Maureen (Jennifer Aniston, also on as executive producer) meets Bartle and asks that he look after her son. This interaction underlines the conflict to come.

Continue reading our Sundance review of The Yellow Birds.

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