A magic trick three years in the making.Īfter becoming the first film to win Best Documentary at both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals last year, “All That Breathes” is competing for the same award at the Academy Awards this Sunday. Sen’s deviation from the exhausted documentary formula - the sitdown interview, shaky handheld shots or slideshow of photographs - can make you forget that this is real. Peppered in the film are moments with the transcendental quality and poise of narrative filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Terrence Malick. It feels like a cataclysmic event of fiction ripped from Alfred Hitchock’s “The Birds,” but the lamentable reality is that Sen’s film is a documentary. In cardboard boxes pierced with holes, they’re delivered to a makeshift basement infirmary where Muslim brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad perform the quixotic effort of nursing these birds of prey back to health. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Black Kite, the ubiquitous relative to the hawk family, plummets from the heavens. In Shaunak Sen’s “All That Breathes,” New Delhi faces a man-made apocalypse of cinematic proportions.
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