An early scene in the small-scale and adventurous Tuesday reveals that Zora, the single mom played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, knows how to bargain. That’s good, because soon she’ll be bargaining with Death. And it’s especially good to see this gifted actor channel her brilliant knack for comic neurosis into dark, weird territory that’s steeped in grief and its seven stages.
Daina O. Pusić, a London-based writer-director who hails from Croatia, takes a courageous leap into allegory and performance-based animation with her first feature-length film. Tuesday, named for Zora’s dying teenage daughter (Lola Petticrew), is a straightforward, uncluttered fusion of mother-child drama and magic realism. In what is essentially a three-hander, Death is a world-weary macaw who can shrink and grow effortlessly, an outstanding VFX creation voiced with engaging seriousness and heart by Arinzé Kene (I’m Your Woman).
With a nod to the indelible modern classic Wings of Desire,...
Daina O. Pusić, a London-based writer-director who hails from Croatia, takes a courageous leap into allegory and performance-based animation with her first feature-length film. Tuesday, named for Zora’s dying teenage daughter (Lola Petticrew), is a straightforward, uncluttered fusion of mother-child drama and magic realism. In what is essentially a three-hander, Death is a world-weary macaw who can shrink and grow effortlessly, an outstanding VFX creation voiced with engaging seriousness and heart by Arinzé Kene (I’m Your Woman).
With a nod to the indelible modern classic Wings of Desire,...
- 9/7/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tuesday is a fairy tale with some very real-world consequences.
The latest A24 collaboration with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, after her superb comedy You Hurt My Feelings premiered at Sundance early in 2023, has just had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend, and for Louis-Dreyfus admirers it just may be a revelation. The star, who has won a boatload of Emmys for comedy including a historic achievement for Lead Actress in three separate comedy series and who was also excellent in the Kenya Barris comedy You People this spring, shows she is just as talented tackling a highly emotional and unusual dramatic role.
Tuesday also marks a stunning writing and directorial feature debut for Croatian filmmaker Daina O. Pusic, who in wanting to make a movie dealing with loss and death has turned it all into a bit of a fairy tale involving a macaw who it turns out is the face of death.
The latest A24 collaboration with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, after her superb comedy You Hurt My Feelings premiered at Sundance early in 2023, has just had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend, and for Louis-Dreyfus admirers it just may be a revelation. The star, who has won a boatload of Emmys for comedy including a historic achievement for Lead Actress in three separate comedy series and who was also excellent in the Kenya Barris comedy You People this spring, shows she is just as talented tackling a highly emotional and unusual dramatic role.
Tuesday also marks a stunning writing and directorial feature debut for Croatian filmmaker Daina O. Pusic, who in wanting to make a movie dealing with loss and death has turned it all into a bit of a fairy tale involving a macaw who it turns out is the face of death.
- 9/4/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
The theaters are officially back. How do I know? Because I had almost three times as many posters to go through for this month’s write-up than I had any month the past year-plus. We’ve got new releases, postponed releases, streaming releases, multi-platform releases—you name it, July 2021 has it.
I’ll be honest, though. I didn’t think I’d actually find more selections to talk about than the usual nine I’ve been doing of late. The increase is mostly Hollywood fare and studio interference generally means mediocre retreads and collages. The fact that I’m including twelve films below and putting the great “blur” campaign Searchlight assembled for Summer of Soul here in the intro means the art thankfully hasn’t regressed to match an overflowing release calendar. We’re still getting eclectic stuff worthy of a head-turn; hopefully that will never go away.
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I’ll be honest, though. I didn’t think I’d actually find more selections to talk about than the usual nine I’ve been doing of late. The increase is mostly Hollywood fare and studio interference generally means mediocre retreads and collages. The fact that I’m including twelve films below and putting the great “blur” campaign Searchlight assembled for Summer of Soul here in the intro means the art thankfully hasn’t regressed to match an overflowing release calendar. We’re still getting eclectic stuff worthy of a head-turn; hopefully that will never go away.
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- 7/2/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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