A brilliantly made crime saga about the clash between old-world tradition and new-world corruption

Allowing genre to inform anthropology and anthropology to enrich genre, Pájaros de verano strikes a broadly successful balance throughout, resulting in a film that consistently depicts familiar genre tropes in a manner which audiences will find unique, especially those whose only familiarity with this milieu comes from shows like Drug Wars (1990-1992) and Narcos (2015-2017), and Americentrist films such as Blow (2001), The Infiltrator (2016), and American Made (2017). On paper, it could be dismissed as just another gangster film, and although adherence to the genre template does occasionally work against the story, this remains a beautifully nuanced, aesthetically exceptional, and deeply lamentative film.

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