Lena Dunham channels Monty Python with cheeky medieval romp Catherine Called Birdy ✍️ Dunham takes on Karen Cushman's award-winning 1994 novel - and it takes a bit of getting used to 🟠 francescasteele
Once you are in the swing of things, though, this is an enjoyable romp, with a terrific script and nearly as many moments of tear-jerking despair as high comedy.
Birdy, who much prefers to wallow in mud with her peasant friends, or laugh inelegantly about bad recorder playing, finds imaginative ways to rebuff the ridiculous suitors who arrive, from advisinghorseback rider that “Lady Catherine” is hideously ugly, to crouching on the high table at dinner and snorting like a pig.
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