The Ornithologist

(2016)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 114 votes

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Year: 2016

Runtime: 118 мин

Country: Portugal, France

Director: João Pedro Rodrigues

Cast: Paul Hamy, João Pedro Rodrigues, Xelo Cagiao, Han Wen, Chan Suan, Jules* Elting, Flora Bulcão, Isabelle Puntel, Alexandre Alverca, André Freitas

Plot

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.

Fernando is a 35-year-old ornithologist. He decides to go down a river in a kayak, hoping to find extremely rare black storks. Distracted by the beauty of the landscape, Fernando is soon thrown overboard by the current, and his motionless, bloody body reaches the riverbank.