At this point we are wondering if this macaw is all just in the imagination of Tuesday, but it becomes clear he’s real when Zora comes into the room and is confronted with its imposing presence. Tuesday welcomes him but makes a plea to let her stay at least until she can say goodbye to her mom, who as the film begins is running around town, bargaining with gift shop owners, and doing anything but sitting with her daughter, at least until it is time for the hired nurse to leave. This is an end-of-life visit he makes for people and all living creatures around the globe, but Tuesday is quite a feisty customer and instantly strikes up a relationship with the bird which - through the miracle of some exceptional CGI visual effects work - can instantly change its size and look, becoming either gigantic or normal sized in an instant. Tuesday on the other hand apparently can, when a shape-changing talking macaw (Arinze Kene is the voice of “Death” here) has appeared suddenly in her room where the young girl is hooked up to medical equipment. This is a very singular story of a lovely terminally ill teenage girl named Tuesday ( Lola Petticrew) who is nearing the end of her life, attended by a nurse (Leah Harvey) and also dealing with a single mother, Zora (Louis-Dreyfus), who clearly cannot the accept the inevitable for her only daughter. When this talking bird arrives in your room, that means your time has come. 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. Tuesday also marks a stunning writing and directorial feature debut for Croatian filmmaker Daina O. Telluride Film Festival 2023: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
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