We meet Sybil, confidently applying for a new job as undertaker’s assistant with the sharpest of black bangs, and a fashion that is both vintage and arthouse-modern. She is a seasoned pro with several references, and a balm for the owner who just lost his wife and was on the cusp of selling the funeral home and retiring, before death kept him working. A goth in the park with AirPods, Joanna Mitchells’ debut feature Broken Bird is, as the small funeral parlour is described at one point in the film, boutique. Nestled somewhere between Lucky McKee’s May and Lynne Stopkewich’s Kissed, it is a very specific kind of psychological character study - one revolving around a traumatized/empowered female, both oddly relatable, and romantically opaque. All is...
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