I haven't read the book but hopefully it has a plot that makes more sense than the film. The ending is so contrived to end happily that it seems to forget about everything that has gone before. The film has a good cast but frankly Birdy is pretty annoying and lacks a lot of charm and perhaps there were a couple of small laughs during the movie but I don't think I'd regard it as a comedy. It was more a lighthearted drama that also bears little or no resemblance to medieval reality....was that really a bicycle in Birdy's room at the end?! The themes were also hit and miss...why reference the Crusades without actually putting them a bit into context - the horror, the butchery, the religious intolerance - they were presented as some romantic endeavour. It didn't sit well when the film clearly wanted to make some points about inequalities and people's position in society. At best it's whimsical nonsense.
Review of Catherine Called Birdy
