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  • 2015
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2015
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary In the northern reaches of Maine, a local school bus driver becomes distracted during her end-of-day inspection and fails to notice a sleeping boy in the back of the bus. What happens next shatters the tranquility of her small logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.

Directed By: Lance Edmands

Written By: Lance Edmands

  • 2015
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2015
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 30 m

Bluebird

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the northern reaches of Maine, a local school bus driver becomes distracted during her end-of-day inspection and fails to notice a sleeping boy in the back of the bus. What happens next shatters the tranquility of her small logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.

Directed By: Lance Edmands

Written By: Lance Edmands

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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87
Feb 24, 2015
Bluebird is undoubtedly a remarkable achievement, especially for a first-time filmmaker.
By Jordan Hoffman FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 24, 2015
Keeping exposition spare, Edmands’ storytelling displays a pleasing economy of means, and an empathetic handle on characters all flawed in one way or another, existing in self-imposed solitude.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 27, 2015
The consequences of seemingly innocuous careless moments, the inexorability of fate, and the possibility of grace or just mere reconciliation in the face of disheartening catastrophe: these are the themes of Bluebird.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 26, 2015
A delicate and affecting drama with grace notes of mystery and redemption.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 24, 2015
For all its piteousness, [it's] often moving, always well acted, and distinguished by rare stillness and beauty.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 24, 2015
Edmands maintains too measured a pace as he cycles through the various lives affected, to the extent that one begins to wonder when things will start kick in.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 24, 2015
Unable to reconcile plot with poetry, Bluebird is knitted-together by its sense of place and lived-in performances, yet unraveled by anemic false melodrama and overbearing music.
By Nick McCarthy FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Act Zero Films, Film i Väst, Greencard Pictures, Idyll, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Killer Films, NoMoore Productions, Rooks Nest Entertainment, San Francisco Film Society, SeeThink Films, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Washington Square Films
Release Date Feb 27, 2015
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/bluebirdmovie
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Awards

Emerge Film Festival, Maine, US
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Oldenburg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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