A treat for everyone that enjoys cinema

Rating: 10/10 (4 November 2014)

There are very few times when I can actually say a movie has completely surpassed my expectations. It is sad but commercial cinema rarely takes chances anymore and art films are now usually more into the experimental and shock factor than actually trying to innovate a way to tell a story. Birdman does all of this and more.
I have to confess I had lost faith in Iñarritu and I usually find his movies hard to watch, they are dark and quite depressing and leave me with a sense of despair. Im not saying this is bad just that it makes his movies too dense for my taste.
That is why Birdman was such a surprise: Iñarritu has completely reinvented himself and the kind of stories he usually tells, in turn giving us a trip into the creation of an artist and the struggle with exposing such creation to the world.
The acting is superb an intimate, created by his almost perfect planning of each scene.
On the other side, Lubezki... Chivo always surprises me with his cinematography and each movie made by his hand is like rediscovering cinema. Every shot is beautifully shot and planned, sometimes to the point where you are left wondering how he can possibly do it. He is a genius and I feel privileged to be able to enter his mind if even for a couple of hours.
All in all Birdman is astounding to watch and a movie that MUST be seen in cinema if only to appreciate the art of its film-making even more.
If you think all this talk about art and technique makes Birdman a bore to watch you would be wrong. The movie is fun and witty and heart-wrenching and special. Frankly the best I have seen in years.