The film is too cold and strained to be at the caliber of the kind of movie that goes from realism to the fantastic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 17, 2023

This is CGI even more invisible than David Fincher’s color correction — I couldn’t spot it at all, which means the job’s been done perfectly.

| Jan 24, 2023

Through such a bold stroke of originality, Bird People highlights the boundless opportunities makes available through storytelling.

| Original Score: 7.9/10 | Jun 15, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 20, 2016

Bird People is one of those rare opportunities to see something different and exceptional. [full review in Spanish]

| Jun 29, 2015

The premise sounds interesting, but it suffers from a lack of cohesiveness. [full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2015

The characters are not engaging enough and the film ends up being boring. [full in review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 26, 2015

A very subtle and smooth film. Basically a European version of Lost In Translation. [full review in Spanish]

| Jun 25, 2015

An incomplete puzzle made out of different ideas that never really fit with each other. [full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2015

A low-key charming diptych character piece that was also divisive, at least according to the chatter in the lines at Cannes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2015

A few tweaks in tone and it could have been profound. Instead it lingers in the realm of the intriguing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2014

Potential narratives, other characters, other lives, could connect through Ferran's film, that's in the air, but will Gary and Audrey? Details, details.

| Nov 7, 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.

| Nov 6, 2014

...[a] glittering little oddity.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 3, 2014

A slow build opens into flights of fancy.

| Original Score: B | Oct 3, 2014

...a strange and sometimes discomfiting movie that occasionally gets a little heavy-handed as it traces the trajectories of two disrupted souls through the depressingly neutral territory of an airport hotel.

| Original Score: 87/100 | Oct 2, 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.

| Sep 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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2014

There are different kinds of bird people in Pascale Ferran's winsome romantic drama, some more worth watching than others.

| Sep 25, 2014

Bird People has ideas about nature, human and otherwise. It's got a sense of romantic wonder.

| Sep 24, 2014