On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.
If you're willing to enter the world of downbeat northern gloom in Bluebird, it's a delicate and affecting drama with grace notes of mystery and redemption.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
27 Feb 2015
fresh:
On one level, "Bluebird" is a bitter slice of life about hardy, stoic New Englanders battling the elements and a crumbling regional economy. On another, it's a poetic meditation on the human struggle to make sense of a cruel and indifferent universe.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
26 Feb 2015
fresh:
The dangling ending won't appeal to everyone, but nobody makes a movie like "Bluebird" with that in mind, anyway.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb 2015
rotten:
What a shame that the first film to star venerable stage actress Amy Morton is this terminally arty drama.
– Ben Sachs,
Chicago Reader,
26 Feb 2015
rotten:
Earnestly well-intentioned and doggedly uncommercial, this is the kind of film that's worth rooting for in principle, but a solid cast and evocative 35 mm photography can't compensate for its slightly stultifying familiarity.