1988 · biography · jazz · drama
Bird
Directed by Clint Eastwood2h 41m1988
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Our read: Bird (1988) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded biography · jazz · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured biography / jazz, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- intense
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