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Catherine Called Birdy

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• Comedy
• Adventure

• 2022
• Lena Dunham
• 108 mins
• 12A

Summary

Lady Catherine (known as Birdy), like all the great teen heroines, is spirited, clever and adventurous - and ready to put off any suitor that comes her way. With her family desperate to marry her off, Birdy's imagination, defiance, and modern independence put her on a collision course with her parents. Relationships are put to the test when the most vile suitor of all arrives to claim her hand.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Emma Simmonds

Girls creator Lena Dunham brings a modern sensibility to a medieval British setting in this effervescent comedy based on the 1994 children's novel by Karen Cushman. Fourteen-year-old Birdy (Bella Ramsey) is a free-spirited maker of mischief living in intensely repressive times, whose spendthrift father Lord Rollo (Andrew Scott) is plotting to marry her off in order to clear his debts. Meanwhile her mother, Aislinn (Billie Piper), is negotiating one pregnancy after another, which mostly end in heartache. Lesley Sharp plays Birdy's indispensable nursemaid, with Joe Alwyn her handsome uncle, whom Birdy is more than a little in love with. Ramsey is a sparky match for the material, and a soundtrack of fun cover versions keeps the energy high. Taking on both writing and directing duties, Dunham judges things beautifully, crafting a buoyantly witty script ("Let's party like it's 1299," shouts a reveller at one point) that takes an irreverent feminist approach to the grim realities of the age.

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6.6/10

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Cast

rolenameBirdyBella RamseySir RolloAndrew ScottUncle GeorgeJoe AlwynShaggy BeardPaul KayeAelisIsis HainsworthLady AislinnBillie PiperGolden TigerRalph InesonEthelfrithaSophie OkonedoMorwennaLesley Sharp

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rolenameDirectorLena Dunham

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Theatrical distributor

Republic Film

Released on

2022-09-23

Languages

English

Formats

Colour

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