Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold’s long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking, Bird is a heartfelt coming-of-age fable with more than a touc
The story centres on 12-year-old Bailey , who lives with her devoted but chaotic dad Bug and her brother Hunter in a squat in Gravesend, north Kent. Bailey’s mother Peyton and three younger half-siblings live on the other side of town in even more squalid conditions, plagued by the ever-looming threat of the violent Skate . Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey’s fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird , a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own.
is her first scripted feature film since 2016, but it contains all the characteristics she’s come to be known for including symbolic imagery, handheld camera work, sparse dialogue and of course, an incredible soundtrack. Songs like Gemma Dunleavy’s “Up De Flats” and Fontaines DC’s “Bug” are amongst the Irish tracks played throughout, with other features ranging from “Murder on the Dancefloor” is in its ability to be both bleak and hopeful at once.
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