The Ornithologist (film)
[5] Director João Pedro Rodrigues has described his film as a "purposefully transgressive and blasphemous reappropriation of the saint’s life".Two Chinese girls Fei and Lin are hiking through the woods, lost on their pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint James in Santiago da Compostela in Spain.At night he observes the traditional rituals of local tribal men dancing and drinking in the dark and slaughtering a boar.As they prepare to leave, Fernando sees that Jesus is putting on the brown hooded sweatshirt he left behind when fleeing Fei and Lin.As night falls, he comes upon a derelict shrine, a series stone shelters that contain life-sized sculptural groups that represent the Stations of the Cross.He talks to some Koi fish in a pond and wonders aloud how they survived the Biblical great flood and who feeds them.Someone almost identical in appearance to Fernando–played by a different but strikingly similar actor, who is actually the film's director–comes upon the body of a young man, apparently dead, and breathes him back to life.