Catherine Called Birdy review: Humorous but largely unconvincing period dramedy

Updated On: 07 October, 2022 03:04 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas

Bella Ramsey is vibrant and convincing as Birdy and Billie Piper, as her mother, makes her brief role count. The rest of the cast play on the side quite efficiently too

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Film: Catherine Called Birdy
Cast: Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper, Andrew Scott, Joe Alwyn, Dean-Charles Chapman, Paul Kaye, Ralph Ineson, Archie Renaux
Director: Lena Dunham
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 108 min.

Karen Cushman’s 1994 Newberry-winning novel gets an adaptation by Director Lena Dunham and it’s not as faithful to the text as one would have hoped for - even though it manages to capture the book’s diary format and humor with a voiceover narration.

The story, set in the 13th century Medieval England, is about a teenage girl, Lady Catherine aka Birdy (Bella Ramsey), the rebellious 14-year-old daughter of Sir Rollo Lord of Stonebridge (Andrew Scott), who tries to navigate life while avoiding the inevitable arranged marriage trap set in store by her father whose money problems appear to be growing out of proportion to his wealth. It’s a piecemeal adaptation as this film is more of a card carrying, feminist leaning effort which skips much of the economic compulsions of those times. The narrative uses audience-pleasing, vulgar comedy as its mainstay while losing out on the thematic heft that the novel conveyed so beautifully.

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