Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) by Lasttimeisaw — 11 Feb 2015

Finally I can get around to watch several current Oscar contenders before this year’s ceremony arriving in mere two weeks. BIRDMAN is the most intriguing one, it might give Alejandro González Iñárritu the prestige which his fellow Mexican compatriot Alfonso Cuarón has received one year earlier for GRAVITY (2013, 9/10), simply because the film is the another formidable labour-of-love with a paradigm-shifting cinematographic endeavour, not a coincidence, the two films share the same DP Emmanuel Lubezki, not even detractors can deny BIRDMAN’s spurious one-long-take gimmick is a wonder to witness, sometimes viewers are so much so that being overpowered by the slithering camera movements in the masterly spatial structures and even overlook the proceedings on screen, so, a re-watch is highly recommended.