NEW RELEASE
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), BIRD is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalized life in the fringes of contemporary society. 12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan, Saltburn) and wayward brother Hunter in a squat in Gravesend, north Kent. Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey's fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird (Franz Rogowski, Passages), a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own. A wondrous portrait of the transition from childhood to adolescence that remains grounded in her typically empathetic social realism, Arnold's latest strides to the wildly poetic rhythm of her own drum.
Score: 3.7
84%
“Director Andrea Arnold strikes a coming-of-age chord
through Nykiya Adams' moving performance, marrying fantasy and reality to the
dizzying end.”
Rotten Tomatoes
“Bird spreads its wings slowly, but ends up soaring away
from its dingy broken-Britain locations in a moving flight of hope and
empowerment.”
ScreenDaily
“It certainly has Arnold’s empathy and integrity, as well as
her raw-boned craftsmanship. It also has a couple of charismatic rising movie
stars in key roles.”
Variety
“As she did in American Honey, Arnold seamlessly blends
bigger-name actors and their more fledgling costars; Adams and Buda are
terrific finds. Together with Arnold’s wise guidance, they make something odd
and affecting, a picture of people finding means both practical and fantastical
to bear up and—though not in the corny British way...”
Vanity Fair
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