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Bird People
Bird People
6.9
/10
476 Ratings

BIRD PEOPLE

Directed by Pascale Ferran
France, 2014
Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.

Our take

Pascale Ferran’s melancholic snapshot of the Parisian suburbs is imbued with yearning for a simpler way of living. In this delicately interconnected tale, a sparrow proves the link between alienated characters searching for emotional bonds in the face of 21st-century uncertainty.