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Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in north Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time to devote to them. Barry Keoghan dropped out of Gladiator II (2024) to star in this film instead..
'Bird' has similarities to Andrea Arnold’s previous film “Fishtank”. where an estranged teenager puts herself in serious danger while trying to escape loneliness and domestic dysfunction. In this new work, Arnold focuses on Bailey, a preteen, who lives in a chaotic squat with her father and older brother.
Her father, Bug, plans to marry his new, eccentric girlfriend, while her troubled mother lives nearby in even more squalid conditions with a violently abusive boyfriend, a crowd of Bailey’s younger siblings, and a long-legged puppy named Dave. None of the adults in her universe seem able to offer much guidance, leaving Bailey to chart her own course. After evading the police, sleeping in a field, and being woken up by a horse, she meets a kilted stranger named Bird.
This eccentric wanderer was born in the area, raised elsewhere, and is trying to find a father he barely remembers. Nykiya Adams gives a brave and compelling performance in the title role, as Bailey’s pursuit of Bird is mixed with other digressions, distractions, and subplots. Her seemingly aimless wanderings eventually reach a revelatory moment, which is depicted in a remarkable passage where the film briefly departs from gritty realism and enters the realm of the fantastic.