A fanciful, occasionally moving take on dying, grieving and highly symbolic parrots.
A young girl named Tuesday, (Lola Petticrew), is reaching the end of her life after what seems to have been a long illness. Death comes to her in the shape of a giant shape-shifting, pot-smoking, colourful macaw whose hearing is perpetually attuned to the sound of pain and suffering, and who spreads his wings to mark the last breath of the dying. Tuesday’s mother Zora (Julia Louis Dreyfuss) takes on Death herself, going to extreme measures to keep her daughter alive. ‘Tuesday’ is a challenging watch at times, and it requires an acceptance of the strange world it inhabits, but it’s a deeply worthwhile experience made all the more poignant by the highly versatile and watchable Julia Louis-Dreyfuss.
UK/USA 2023 Daina O. Pusic 111m
