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EMPTYING THE SKIES<\/strong>
\nMusic Box Films<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong>
\nGrade: B+<\/strong>
\nDirector: Douglas Kass, Roger Kass<\/strong>
\nCast:\u00a0 Peter Berthold, Sergio Coen Tanugi, David Conlin, Jonathan Franzen, Martin Hellicar, Alex Heyd, Axel Hirschfeld, Piero Liberati, Andrea Rutigliano<\/strong>
\nScreened at: Review 2, NYC, 4\/15\/15<\/strong>
\nOpens:\u00a0 April 22, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone should take an eco-vacation in Costa Rica where you can admire birds like the Toucan, the Tricolored Heron, the Pinnated Bitron, and a hundred other species.\u00a0 You\u2019ll probably think: beautiful birds like these are lucky. They will never be eaten by human beings.\u00a0 That\u2019s true in Costa Rica where environmental laws protecting the woodlands are strictly enforced.\u00a0 But in Europe, you\u2019ll discover another story.\u00a0 The European Union has passed legislation banning the trapping of migratory songbirds, but there\u2019s money in their sale just as there\u2019s lucre in the sale of African elephant ivory despite being against the law.\u00a0 To this end, Jonathan Franzen, an A-list American writer whose upcoming \u201cPurity,\u201d about youthful idealism and murder, and more to this point, \u201cEmptying the Skies,\u201d a 2010 essay published in The New Yorker and translated into several languages, expresses rage about the wholesale decline in the bird population caused by poachers.\u00a0 Douglas Kass and Roger Kass\u2019s documentary by the same name gives visual dimensions to the slaughter of millions of these flying marvels.\u00a0 You\u2019ll leave the theater, perhaps, as angry as the British poet William Blake who wrote, \u201cA robin redbreast in a cage\/ Puts all heaven in a rage.\u201d\u00a0 And you\u2019ll go home to a steak dinner.\u00a0 Ironic enough, though the Kasses focus on a group of environmentalists in southern Europe, most of whom speak a good English and who are likely vegans, risking and indeed getting beatings when at times they confront these poachers who claim that they are on private property but who get the response that what the trappers are doing is illegal.\u00a0 The law, however, is enforced in such a lax way that even restaurants put these small birds on their menus. In fact to get a description of a diner enjoying this sordid treat, read Anthony Bourdain\u2019s book \u201cMedium Raw,\u201d where great chefs have Ortolan on the menu, and are eaten by putting napkins over the heads of the diners \u201chiding their faces from God\u201d and lift the birds gingerly by their hot skulls, placing them feet-first into their mouths.<\/p>\n

The birds look exquisite while they are alive, often taking the long seasonal journey to \u201cwinter\u201d in Africa and \u201csummer\u201d in southern Europe, sometimes landing on the same tree in Cyprus (for example) that they left.\u00a0 Yet when cooked, heads attached, they appear gruesome enough to turn off all but the most insistent gourmets, who love, as Bourgain says, \u201cthe hot rush of burning fat and guts down my throat.\u201d These birds are drowned in Armagnac before cooking, which, according to one chef \u201cisn\u2019t a bad way to die.\u201d<\/p>\n

In \u201cEmptying the Skies, \u201cFranzen appears now and then as a narrator, fashionable three-day bristle on his face and with wide, black-framed glasses.\u00a0 Franzen is obviously a fan of CABS, or Committee Against Bird Slaughter, which look for and destroy traps, freeing the small birds. The traps are cruel.\u00a0 One type catches them in a huge net larger than what you\u2019d find on a typical commercial fishing boat.\u00a0 Even crueler, the lime trap is like fly paper.\u00a0 When a bird alights on a twig, it gets stuck.\u00a0 The good guys carefully free the birds, wiping the wings to get rid of all traces of goo, and off the birds go\u2014without even a \u201cthank-you,\u201d as one anti-poacher states.\u00a0 Sometimes, though, a formerly trapped bird is no longer able to fly and must be put out of its misery.\u00a0 A third type of trap involves a large stone which falls unceremoniously atop a hapless bird after the bird touches a twig on the ground, releasing the stone as a mousetrap would unhinge a bar.<\/p>\n

Audience members already hip to animal welfare manifestoes will be the best crowd for this doc, and I\u2019d guess that those who enter the theater wearing minks or talking about the coq au vin they will enjoy apr\u00e8s th\u00e9\u00e2tre will find the movie of limited interest.\u00a0 Close-up photography is first rate.<\/p>\n

Unrated.\u00a0 77 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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