Tuesday (2024)
Directed by Daina Oniunas-Pusić
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
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The film, much to its detriment, recalls J.A. Bayona's A Monster Calls, in which Liam Neeson voices a similarly grizzled fantasy character (in this case, a talking tree) who guides…
Tuesday, the ambitious debut feature from Croatian filmmaker Daina O. Pusić, in fact bears most similarities to 2016’s A Monster Calls: as with J.A. Bayona’s tear-jerking drama, this is a devastatingly moving fairy tale about a gravelly voiced, anthropomorphised fantasy character making friends with a human grappling with the terminal illness of a family member.
Here is another film that ponders the big life-or-death existential questions, in the grand cinematic tradition of 1946’s A Matter Of Life And Death or, say, 1990’s Ghost.