Rent Bird (2024)
3.6 of 5 from 129 ratings
1h 54min
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- 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 marginalised 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) 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), 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. - Actors:
- Nykiya Adams, Franz Rogowski, Barry Keoghan, Jason Buda, Jasmine Jobson, Frankie Box, James Nelson-Joyce, Jason Williamson, Sarah Beth Harber, Rhys Yates, Joanne Matthews, Kirsty J. Curtis, Calum Speed, Andrew Richard Bryant
- Directors:
- Andrea Arnold
- Producers:
- Lee Groombridge, Juliette Howell, Tessa Ross, Sarah Cloke
- Writers:
- Andrea Arnold
- Studio:
- Mubi
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- Award Winners, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2025
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/03/2025
- Run Time:
- 119 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (2) of Bird
Boring and poorly made with sub standard acting - Bird review by RB
I am so bored with this genre akin to James Joyce’s Ulysses. No real plot, just a series of meandering and overlong scenes in which the director includes anything they happen across, presumably because there is no budget. The acting from the main protagonist is terrible, the sound can only have been recorded on a Fisher Price tape machine and ironically there is a real lack of realism. Unfortunately I didn’t make it all the way through, I put on the new Bob Dylan film, ironically following a listless character forming a life for themselves, but to far greater effect.
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Strange yet Interesting Social Drama - Bird review by GI
This is a quirky coming of age social drama set in a rundown housing estate in Kent, England where 12 year old Bailey is a young girl living with her dairy but affectionate father Bug (Barry Keoghan). They live in a squat which attracts an assortment of weirdos and criminals including Bailey's half brother who runs a violent gang on the estate. Bailey is a child who is readily suspicious of strangers instantly filming anyone who gets too near to her but she's drawn to nature and in particular the freedom she sees in birds. Her mother (Jasmine Jobson) lives nearby with an assortment of Baileys young siblings but she's controlled by a nasty bullying boyfriend. Bailey meets an enigmatic young man who calls himself Bird (Franz Rogowski) who seems to watch over her and they bond as friends. He's an odd chap, poetic and an outsider who dresses peculiarly and seems to be seeking his parents who used to live in the area. Bailey agrees to help him. There's a transitional point in the film that is somewhat predictable and it's one you'll either accept as the emblem of Bailey's dreams and emotions or it'll be a step too far. It certainly adds to the film's overall absurd vision of life especially for a young girl in modern Britain. It's a strangely compelling film and has superb performances throughout bolstered by the boisterousness of Keoghan as the Dad who imports toads from some far off land for the hallucinogenic affects of their sweat! An interesting film, if a little strange.
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