"Arnold’s filmmaking is typically robust, buoyed by another great soundtrack, of course, but the real gem here is another riveting performance from Rogowski."—Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
"Andrea Arnold’s most ambitious work. It also might be her truest masterpiece."—Drew Gregory, Autostraddle
"This is what Arnold is so great at capturing: people just doing their best, which often means they surpass every expectation without even knowing it. Her generosity toward her characters is also generosity toward us."—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
A Blue Carpet Dash Film
Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold's (American Honey) latest is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalized life in the fringes of contemporary society. 12-year-old Bailey (a breakout performance from newcomer Nykia Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan) and wayward brother Hunter in a squat in Gravesend, north Kent. Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey’s fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird (Franz Rogowksi), 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.
