A Celebration of Cinema

Bird (Andrea Arnold, 2024) & Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère, 2021)

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Oene Kummer
Nov 26, 2024
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Andrea Arnold openly flirts with the fantastical in her latest social realist drama Bird.

Written by Arnold herself, Bird tells the troubled but ultimately uplifting story of 12-year old Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who lives in the town of Gravesend, close to London in county Kent. 

Bailey lives with her father Bug (Barry Keoghan), and her half-brother Hunter …

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