My good friend Dayne once said to me that an Andrea Arnold movie looks the way it feels—it’s one of the hallmarks of her brilliant filmmaking, and this statement characterizes Bird through and through.
This movie is about feeling alone even when you’re not physically alone; it’s about trying to fit in, trying to make a way in the world. And Bird is also about the world, by which I mean the greater-than-human world of birds, dogs, horses, snakes, toads, and the way our human lives intertwine with theirs. And this is a film about magic and love and needing other people.
Goddammit this is a great movie.
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