cramped

A raw fable about looking up instead of feeling down, “Bird” shows writer-director Andrea Arnold back in a familiar milieu of cramped youth on the periphery, making do with what little is available, seesawing between explosive anger and playful respite.

It has outgrown its current base, which is rather cramped and struggles to accommodate its members on the one day a week it has access to premises at the Otley Courthouse arts centre.

Instead, the couple rents a cramped back house in Pasadena, with little prospect that they will ever be able to stop working.

She looked around the cramped quarters.

The place feels full but not cramped.