It’s been a while since we’ve seen a narrative feature film from acclaimed director Andrea Arnold. In fact, her last feature was 2016’s “American Honey.” Sure, she’s done some TV work and a documentary since, but we really have been waiting to see a new narrative feature from Arnold. Thankfully, that’s what we get with the new film, “Bird.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Bird,” the film follows the story of a young girl who lives with her chaotic single dad and her brother.

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Children forced to grow up too fast understand the pained nature of powerlessness like few others. This is true of the pre-teen at the center of director Andre Arnold’s “Bird,” Bailey (Nykiya Adams). Born and bred in the small town of Gravesend, just 20 miles from the hustle and bustle of London, the 12-year-old lives in a heavily graffitied council block alongside her far too young father, tatted hopeful druglord Bug (Barry Keoghan) and older brother, Hunter (Jason Buda). 

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Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has been relatively quiet of late and hasn’t made a film since 2017’s “Happy End,” but his exacting reputation has been coming under fire in recent weeks. First, Juliette Binoche called him a “control freak” while recalling working with the filmmaker on “Caché.” “I thought, ‘He doesn’t give a shit about what I’m doing.’ So I said that to him; I said, did you see?

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Well, Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker is planning on doing his own, feature-film length version of Armstrong’s life called (naturally) “What a Wonderful World,” according to Variety.

The film is the first big-screen production of Armstrong’s life that’s been approved by the jazz man’s estate and Whitaker already has previous experience playing a jazz great, having portrayed Charlie Parker in the Clint Eastwood-directed “Bird” in 1998 (Whitaker won the Best Actors At Cannes that year, but was snubbed an Oscar nomination).

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