'Birds': worthy tragicomedy about the crisis of masculinity. Pau Durà has composed a film about the consequences of middle age and the challenge of redemption.

Javier Gutiérrez and Luis Zahera, 53 and 57 years old, respectively, show off in beautiful costumes of average sufferers. Guided by the elegant photography of David Omedes, bright when it should be, dimmer in the coldest passages and places. Durà's The Flight of the Birds will be shorter or longer depending on what we expect from a film like this, but its dark sympathy and its portrait of how damned life is sometimes and how painful people can be are close.