absolutely. astonishingly, but it isn t. second thing is it has a young heroine who is smarter, funnier, sharper, more sort of self reliant than almost anyone else on screen. bella ramsey is terrific as birdy, just spending time in her company is fantastic because she s this kind of force of nature. she, you know, she s, as i said, like a whirling dervish of a character. but she really manages all the twists and turns of the story really well. andrew scott is a mixture of tragedy and comedy, as the father is. i think you saw there with the tiger scene. billie piper as her mother is so good. i didn t recognise her for the first few scenes that she was that she was in it. it s really well made. i went into this knowing nothing about it other than it s in cinemas now, it s on amazon prime on the 7th, and it s got that strange title catherine called birdy. but i thought it was great fun. it s a 12a certificate and i think pretty much anyone who s old enough for a 12a certificate would woul
so having run out of money, he decides that what he has to do is to marry birdy to somebody who has money into a whole bunch of beardy and horrible suitors. he doesn t want to. he loves his daughter, but that s the situation that he s in. so what you have here is a really interesting coming of age tale that has many things going for it. one of them is it s not at all squeamish about menstruation. it is a subject that s right there in the middle of the film. absolutely great. no problem at all, which, let s face it, in terms of mainstream cinema is not a common thing. absolutely. astonishingly, but it isn t. second thing is it has a young heroine who is smarter, funnier, sharper, more sort of self reliant than almost anyone else on screen. bella ramsey is terrific as birdy, just spending time in her company is fantastic because she s this kind of force of nature. she, you know, she s, as i said, like a whirling dervish of a character. but she really manages all the twists and turns of t
heroine who is smarter, funnier, sharper, more sort of self reliant than almost anyone else on screen. bella ramsey is terrific as birdy, just spending time in her company is fantastic because she s this kind of force of nature. she s, as i said, like a whirling dervish of a character. but she really manages all the twists and turns of the story really well. andrew scott is a mixture of tragedy and comedy, as the father. i think you saw there with the tiger scene. billie piper as her mother is so good. i didn t recognise it for the first few scenes that she was in it. it s really well made. i went into this knowing nothing about it other than it s in cinemas now. it s on amazon prime on the seventh, and it s got that strange title, catherine called birdy. but i thought it was great fun. it s a 12a certificate and i think pretty much anyone who s old enough for a 12a certificate would would love this. i mean, i m a 60 year old and i thought it was terrific. i thought it was really acces
bella ramsey is terrific as birdy, just spending time in her company is fantastic because she s this kind of force of nature. she s, as i said, like a whirling dervish of a character. but she really manages all the twists and turns of the story really well. andrew scott is a mixture of tragedy and comedy, as the father. i think you saw there with the tiger scene. billie piper as her mother is so good. i didn t recognise her for the first few scenes that she was in. it s really well made. i went into this knowing nothing about it other than it s in cinemas now. it s on amazon prime on the seventh, and it s got that strange title, catherine called birdy. but i thought it was great fun. it s a 12a certificate and i think pretty much anyone who s old enough for a 12a cert would would love this. i mean, i m a 60 year old and i thought it was terrific. i thought it was really accessible and funny and spirited and charming. and i ve not been a huge fan of some of lena dunham s previous work,