A teenage girl is visited by death – in the form of a parrot – and her mother is having none of it in Daina O Pusić’s striking feature debut
eird, wrenching and wildly ambitious, the UK-set debut film from Croatian writer-director Daina O Pusić is an achingly sad oddity. Tuesday is a 15-year-old girl caught in the claws of an unspecified terminal illness. Her time, she realises, is running out when she is visited by Death – a moth-eaten, manky-looking parrot who swoops around the planet, snuffing out the lives of all dying creatures. But there’s something about Tuesday’s spirit and empathy that stops Death in his tracks.
There’s a real elegance and economy to Pusić’s direction, in the first half at least. She has a knack for packing layers of story into seemingly insignificant details. Her tight grip on this fatalistic fairytale loosens a little as the film unfolds, but there’s no question that this is a remarkable and assured first feature.
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