A Bird of the Air
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
- Summary:
- Director: Margaret Whitton
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Positive: 1 out of 6
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70Margaret Whitton strikes a pleasing balance between amusing and sensitive, largely eluding the potentially precious minefields in their way.
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50Ms. Nichols is consistently appealing in the kind of role Zooey Deschanel has pretty much cornered, and Philippe Rousselot's nighttime shots of highway tragedy are dreamily atmospheric. If only Roger Towne's screenplay had focused less on the metaphysical import of Lyman's savior impulses and more on the physical rewards of his salvaged life.
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40Unable to establish a consistent tone, picture goes derivatively screwball one minute and stickily sentimental the next.
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38Naturally, given the film's somewhat precious air of spiritualism, the parroted phrase that speaks most clearly to Lyman is a quotation from the book of Ecclesiastes that gives the film its title and gives Fiona a chance to offer a blithely optimistic interpretation of that most dour of Biblical books.
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