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‘Bird’ Review: Andrea Arnold Taps the Star Power of Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski but Returns to Her Bleak British Roots in a Coming-of-Age Fairy Tale
Nykiya Adams plays a 12-year-old mired in kitchen-sink miserablism, and Franz Rogowski is the eccentric stranger who's even stranger than she thought.
Barry Keoghan, who now carries himself differently as an actor (he gives off the awareness that he’s a star), plays Bug, a single father of two who lives in a squatter’s flat in Kent and spends exactly no time looking after his children. I should add that Bailey’s half-brother, Hunter (Jason Buda), belongs to a shambles of a vigilante youth gang who like to put on creepy masks and terrorize locals who have bad reputations. His name is Bird, and he’s played by Franz Rogowski, the German actor whose performance as the prima donna filmmaker in Ira Sachs’ “Passages” made him into such a sociopath that he threw the movie out of whack.
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