Bird
Bird
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.
Desmond Dale reviewedJanuary 24, 2025
Bird had just enough touching magical moments to outweigh its misses and a few lulling sections to sway me towards an overall positive outlook. When Bird works it's quite affecting. It manages to capture the idiosyncracies of the setting quite well and pairs an alarming grittyness dealing with familial neglect, dysfunction and the growing pains of growing up in such an impoverished chaotic environment coupled with identity and sexuality discoveries. It's heavy and almost overwhelming but kept in balance by moments of whimsy and Barry Keoghan's charisma.