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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.
A film that showcases Arnold’s gifts – the artful shepherding of apparent chaos – while allowing new and surprising elements. – Irish Times ★★★★
Bird at least maintains a heartbeat of ache and affection for youth in all its rudeness, revealing a filmmaker who isn’t afraid of losing her claws if she traffics in the thing with feathers. – Los Angeles Times
Bird is a very Andrea Arnold film, from a director whose stories always orbit strong-minded young women. For all Keoghan’s star power and Rogowski’s diligence, Adams is the centre of the film. – Financial Times
It’s a fragile but beautiful vision, and marks the strongest blend yet of Andrea Arnold’s primary directives as a filmmaker. – Independent [UK]
Bird would make a pretty good stage musical — not just because people always seem to be singing, but because it’s achingly, heartbreakingly sincere, and for a character living in chaos, that sincerity can feel like magic. – New York Times
PLEASE NOTE FILMS NOW BEGIN AT EARLIER TIME OF 7:30PM.
- BIRD
- UK, 2024 | Language: English | 2 h | Cert: 15A
- Director: Andrea Arnold
- Cast: Nykiya Adams, Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski
- Foreign language films are subtitled.
- Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
- BOOKING
- Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession.
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