Catherine Called Birdy
A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.
- Released: 2022-09-23
- Runtime: 108 minutes
- Genre: Adventure, Comedy
- Stars: Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper, Andrew Scott, Lesley Sharp, Joe Alwyn, Sophie Okonedo, Paul Kaye, Dean-Charles Chapman, Isis Hainsworth, Archie Renaux, Michael Woolfitt, David Bradley, Mimi Ndiweni, Ralph Ineson, Rita Bernard-Shaw, Jake Middleton Cooke, Adam Aziz, Saskia Chana, Jamie Demetriou, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Russell Brand, Christophe Tek, Angus Wright, Jacob Avery, Douggie McMeekin, Lawrence Hodgson-Mullings, Bola Latunji, Jessica Ellis, Jordan Adene, Tyler Howitt, Jeffery Kissoon, Moya Brady, Ramesh Nair, Antony Bunsee, Tim Bevan, Colin Murtagh, Volenté Lloyd, Trevor Jones, Chris Ecob
- Director: Lena Dunham
Comments
- lantern4444 - 3 September 2023
A quirky enjoyable movie ruined by Woke themes.
This movie, despite it's setting in medieval England, is extremely and unbelievably Woke in nature. The movie is unbelievably about a 14yo Lady, despite being under close supervision and punishment by her Lord father, stopping many arranged marriages and is also about male homosexuality. It is a true fantasy with all the suitors being horrible in different ways and the daughter being able to avoid their arranged proposals. The modern obscene and vulgar language strongly distracts from the era portrayed. The historically inaccurate portrayal of a large number of characters including Ladies as black also destroys the reality of the period portraed5. - danieljfarthing - 12 March 2023
Medieval feminist Brit-dramedy that's not as rich 'n' good as the similarly toned 'Enola Holmes' films
In medieval feminist Brit-dramedy "Catherine Called Birdy" (from 'edgy' writer/director Lena Dunham) Bella Ramsey (meh) is the over-confident, teen tom-boy daughter of village Lord Andrew Scott & wife Billie Piper who need her to wed a rich noble (like Russell Brand (cameo) or Paul Kaye) to save them from poverty - a prospect that revolts her. Support from the likes of Joe Alwyn, Sophie Okonedo & Lesley Sharp is decent, it's fart-gag funny, and the rites-of-passage of its tale parallels modern life - so the target audience of 14yr old girls may love it, but its broader appeal is less likely to match that of the similarly toned but richer, better 'Enola Holmes' films.
