Female Film Critics 24/375
British writer/director Andrea Arnold has focused her best films on impoverished, hard-scrabble lives in England’s county Kent where she grew up. In her latest film Bird, set in Gravesend, Northeastern Kent, she leavens the struggles of twelve-year-old Bailey with a welcome infusion of fanciful, magical realism in the figure of title character Bird.
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Bailey, who is 12, is growing up in a squat outside London with zero adult supervision. She doesn’t lack for parents, but her father is not much more than a child himself and her mother is currently living with a violent and terrible man. That’s the world presented in Bird, a coming-of-age drama from writer/director Andrea Arnold starring newcomer Nykiya Adams as the observant Bailey.
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