Bird (2024)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 119 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / United States / France / Germany
Directed by: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Jasmine Jobson, Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski
IMDb score:
7,0 (13.054)
Releasedate: 16 May 2024
Bird plot
Twelve-year-old Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and their single father Bug in a squat in north Kent. Bug doesn't have much time for his children, so they have to rely on themselves. However, Bailey, who is approaching puberty, wants attention and decides to adventure elsewhere.
Reviews & comments
De filosoof
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- 2570 messages
- 1760 votes
Like Fish Tank, for example, the film shows life in an English slum full of sex, drugs, violence and matching, contemporary music where growing up in a broken family and on the streets is not easy. This time we follow four sub-stories around 12-year-old Bailey – who holds her own – and because there is always drama and action (or threat) and the storylines always go a little differently than you would expect, the story remains fascinating. The story even has a somewhat unexpectedly positive ending, which has to do with the fact that it is a coming-of-age film, so that Bailey's dream to be as free as the birds more or less becomes reality because she undergoes a transformation into a woman and a certain reconciliation, helped by a mysterious and fairytale-like man called Bird, who metaphorically seems to stand for the transformation. The film's great strength, however, lies in its images and music (including by Fontaines DC), which lift the film to a higher artistic level and really make it fly.
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mrklm
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- 12367 messages
- 10458 votes
Bug [Barry Keoghan] and Peyton [Jasmine Jobson] were minors when their daughter Bailey [Nykiya Adams] was born. Now a teenager herself, Bailey is looking for someone to hold on to during a turbulent time. Bug announces he’s getting married to Kayleigh [Frankie Box] in a week, and Peyton has taken up with an aggressive deadbeat [James Nelson-Joyce]. Then an oddball [Franz Rogowski] shows up looking for his biological father. Magical realist social drama with great acting, but where’s the story?
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Drulko Vlaschjan
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- 510 messages
- 443 votes
Nice, a fairy tale. I liked the film a lot better than American Honey, which was too predictable and harmless for me.
You could say that the characters are all a bit too one-sided, but that fits the concept well. You have the good guys and the bad guys and there is little in between. Only the father changes his mind a bit at the end.
I also thought the very end was funny. Suddenly Baily is a fox. I don't know exactly what to make of that, but it leaves room for interpretation and you don't see that very often in fairy tales.
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