Film Review: I Am No Bird (2019)
by“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will”. So responds the titular Jane…
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will”. So responds the titular Jane…
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