Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.
Bird is told from the viewpoint of smart, lonely 12-year-old Bailey, growing up in an unconventional family unit that borders on the dysfunctional. Her home is a freewheeling, graffiti-daubed squat shared with a teenage half-brother Hunter and her dad, Bug.
Bug is about to be married to a woman he has known for three months, in a whirlwind ceremony he plans to fund through a new business venture: selling the psychotropic skin secretions of a “drug toad”.
Bailey’s mother, her violent and unpredictable new boyfriend, and Bailey’s three younger half-siblings live on the other side of a town where kids run wild and dumped mattresses are repurposed as trampolines.
On paper it sounds unremittingly bleak and despairing. In fact, Bird finds beauty and wonder in every frame. The film celebrates rather than judges its erratic and occasionally challenging characters. It’s the closest Andrea Arnold has come to a feelgood flick. – Wendy Ide – The Guardian
Englische Originalfassung mit Englischem Untertitel
UK 2024; 119 min.; Director: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Nykiya Adams, Franz Rogowski, Barry Keoghan a. o.
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