BIRD

Starring: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams

Director: Andrea Arnold

Language: English

Genre: Drama

Country of Origin: United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany

Runtime: 1:58

Aspect: 1.66

Sound: 5.1

Rating: Rated R for language throughout, some violent content and drug material

SYNOPSIS:

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.

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