BIRD
Type: Dramatic ✦✦✦
Director: Andrea Arnold. With Nykiya Adams, Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowsky
The strongest image of the latest film by British Andrea Arnold – author of powerful portraits of young women, from Red Road to FISH TANK And American Honey – It is that of a man in the balance on the cornice of a building. A man-bird ready to take flight, perhaps a guardian angel for the young Bailey (The debutant Nykiya Adams, very good).
Bailey has a broken family and a father never raised (Barry Keoghan) who not only is about to remarry, but also claims that his daughter acts as a bridesmaid at the ceremony.
Nykiya Adams in “Bird” by Andrea Arnold (photo by Atsushi Nishijima).
The meeting with Bird (Franz Rogowski), bizarre creature and mysterious powers allows the film to derail: from social realism to fantastic. Not everything works, but the director of the director for his characters (even when they are detestable), and for his fellow men, he is sincere.
Legend
✦ Modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ Great
✦✦✦✦ Masterpiece
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