‘Bird’ Is a Coming-of-Age Movie of a Different Feather

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• Director Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey) takes a gritty, cinema vérité approach to this story, drawing intimate performances from unknown young actors like Nykiya Adams and Barry Keoghan.
• Despite the film's deceptively simple premise, critics at the Cannes Film Festival hailed it as a refreshing departure from typical coming-of-age narratives, blending hardscrabble realism with moments of lyrical, almost magical-realist wonder.