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Barry Keoghan attends the “Bird” premiere during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2024. Photo by Nicholai Roska for Tangent Zine
English filmmaker Andrea Arnold's latest film "Bird" premiered at the TIFF Lightbox on September 7, 2024. The story is about a distracted father (Barry Keoghan) and his lonely and imaginative 12-year-old daughter, Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who must seek attention (and adventure) elsewhere.
Barry Keoghan and costar Nykiya Adams attend the “Bird” premiere during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2024. Photo by Nicholai Roska for Tangent Zine
Barry Keoghan and costar Nykiya Adams attend the “Bird” premiere during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2024. Photo by Nicholai Roska for Tangent Zine
Film synopsis from TIFF: Twelve-year-old Bailey (played by charismatic newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her father Bug (a devoted but emotionally chaotic Barry Keoghan) in a graffiti-strewn tenement. When Bug informs her that he’ll be marrying his new girlfriend soon, Bailey is furious and hurt, for what will become of her? Her mother lives with a violent, cruel man, and while Bug sports a ferocious love for his daughter, he can be oblivious to the needs of a fledgling teenage girl.
Barry Keoghan attends the “Bird” premiere during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2024. Photo by Nicholai Roska for Tangent Zine
As she often does, Bailey retreats to the open fields on the outskirts of her hometown to seek comfort. It is here she is most herself, with an uncanny ability to communicate with animals and experience nature in a profound way. It is on one of these walks that Bailey has a mysterious, yet deeply meaningful, encounter that helps her when she must force a confrontation with her mother’s vicious partner.
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