The film recounts the journey of the three wise men as they travel to meet the Baby Jesus.
Serra shot and edited over 100 hours of footage for the film.
[2] Canadian film critic Mark Peranson played Joseph.
[3] A. O. Scott, writing for The New York Times, called Birdsong "less a retelling of the Nativity story than a dream about it, filtered... through a sensibility that recalls Luis Buñuel and Samuel Beckett".
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