Bird People
In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. Soon, fate draws him and a young French maid together.
3 April 1965
29 September 1987
15 September 1992, La Londe-les-Maures, Var, France
12 November 1973, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
June 26, 2015
The characters are not engaging enough and the film ends up being boring. [full in review in Spanish]
September 25, 2014
An airport hotel may not seem the most inspiring of locations for a story of life-changing consequence, but French filmmaker Pascale Ferran's delicate, compassionate "Bird People" is just that sort of risk-taking existential adventure.
December 20, 2016
Did you know there's a sparrow sitting just outside your window? Probably not -- they're so common that they are practically invisible. That's what the movie Bird People is getting at, in its own charming and humorous way.
June 25, 2015
A very subtle and smooth film. Basically a European version of Lost In Translation. [full review in Spanish]
June 29, 2015
Bird People is one of those rare opportunities to see something different and exceptional. [full review in Spanish]
November 06, 2014
People are just like birds, this French drama asserts-over and over again, with mind-numbing obviousness, until you might feel like spreading your wings and flying away yourself.
September 25, 2014
The vehicle for the message feels haphazard, as if Ferran were trying to create a patchwork of various film types rather than one cohesive piece.
June 26, 2015
The premise sounds interesting, but it suffers from a lack of cohesiveness. [full review in Spanish]
September 12, 2014
Ferran is prone to "flights of fancy," pardon the pun, as some scenes in his film go on unchecked while others aren't allowed nearly the right amount of time to develop.
June 25, 2015
An incomplete puzzle made out of different ideas that never really fit with each other. [full review in Spanish]
September 15, 2014
An artful experiment that only half works.
