House Comes with a Bird

It’s quintessentially late afternoon Californian sun. The eponymous house gently hosts a number of clipped social encounters. Each of these denotes dynamics of power in race, gender and class. While it’s the macaw that seems ostensibly and literally caged, Bravo’s drama of manners suggests that every single one of us may not be quite as uncaged as we assume.

Director: Janicza Bravo

Cast: Kelsey Lu, Natasha Lyonne, Pedro Pascal, Katherine Waterston, Poorna Jagannathan, Sam Fragoso

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.