Rent Bird (2024)
3.6 of 5 from 98 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 (1) 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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