Is it the homosexuality in Rodrigues work that does not allow him in the Pantheon of great directors ? He has created one of the finest films in cinema, ' O Fantasma ' and ' The Ornithologist ' is quite simply one of the greatest films I have ever seen. No spoilers but how wonderful to see a Saint in the making make love to a deaf and dumb Jesus by a beautiful river. It is erotic and the nudity justified, and the combination of intense sexuality with mortality has never been so finely expressed. The lead actor is superb, and his beauty of body is equal to his capacity as an actor who can hold all of the film in the palm of his hand as everything is more or less experienced from his own viewpoint. The nature scenes in their strange wildness reminded me of Herzog but better. Everything is seen through the eyes of a visionary and in this unjust world I am appalled that he is not more celebrated. If his subject matter was not so subversive and that his eroticism was not essentially male the mafia of straight critics would be writing books about him. He has a catalogue of work that should be brought out in a boxset ( in fact more than one boxset ) and this should be considered but I guess it never will. A visionary to be discovered and cherished.