Bird Blu-ray

'Bird' Director: Andrea Arnold (2024) MUBI Blu-ray

The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from the director of American Honey and Fish Tank is a tender and striking coming-of-age fable about marginalised life in the fringes of contemporary society.

12-year-old Bailey lives with her devoted but chaotic single father and wayward brother in a squat in north Kent. Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey's fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird, a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own. A wondrous portrait of the transition from childhood to adolescence that remains grounded in her typically empathetic social realism, Arnold's latest strides to the wildly poetic rhythm of her own drum.